Millimetre-Wave Comb Generated by an Optical Microcomb
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| author | Peters, Luke Cutrona, Antonio Cooper, Andrew R. Olivieri, Luana Getman, Fedor Cecconi, Vittorio Paul, Nitish Das, Debayan Rowley, Maxwell Chu, Sai T. Little, Brent E. Morandotti, Roberto Moss, David J. Gongora, Juan S. Totero Pasquazi, Alessia Peccianti, Marco |
| author_facet | Peters, Luke Cutrona, Antonio Cooper, Andrew R. Olivieri, Luana Getman, Fedor Cecconi, Vittorio Paul, Nitish Das, Debayan Rowley, Maxwell Chu, Sai T. Little, Brent E. Morandotti, Roberto Moss, David J. Gongora, Juan S. Totero Pasquazi, Alessia Peccianti, Marco |
| contents | Metrological-grade millimetre wave baseband comb sources covering the subterahertz window are a key building block for next-generation wireless communications, precision sensing, and positioning systems. While optical microcombs have set new benchmarks in ultra-low phase noise single-frequency microwave generation, to date, no microcomb source has directly produced a millimetre-wave baseband comb. Here, we present a 50 GHz repetition rate carrier-envelope offset estabilised millimetre-wave baseband comb source covering the sub-terahertz region, generated from an optical microcomb source. Our microresonator-filtered microcomb enables direct, coherent downconversion via photoconductive antennas, even without external amplification. The metrological-grade optical soliton source produces single-cycle, naturally zero carrier-envelope offset millimetrewave baseband combs. It supports time-domain spectroscopy without any need to temporally align the source and detection pulses, as the ultra-high phase coherence allows significant differences between the optical paths of the source and detection pulses, which we tested over 8m, finding no degradation even in freerunning operation. Finally, the multisoliton operation regime provides a simple way of spectrally tailoring the microwave output by selecting different optical soliton states. |
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| spellingShingle | Millimetre-Wave Comb Generated by an Optical Microcomb Peters, Luke Cutrona, Antonio Cooper, Andrew R. Olivieri, Luana Getman, Fedor Cecconi, Vittorio Paul, Nitish Das, Debayan Rowley, Maxwell Chu, Sai T. Little, Brent E. Morandotti, Roberto Moss, David J. Gongora, Juan S. Totero Pasquazi, Alessia Peccianti, Marco Optics Metrological-grade millimetre wave baseband comb sources covering the subterahertz window are a key building block for next-generation wireless communications, precision sensing, and positioning systems. While optical microcombs have set new benchmarks in ultra-low phase noise single-frequency microwave generation, to date, no microcomb source has directly produced a millimetre-wave baseband comb. Here, we present a 50 GHz repetition rate carrier-envelope offset estabilised millimetre-wave baseband comb source covering the sub-terahertz region, generated from an optical microcomb source. Our microresonator-filtered microcomb enables direct, coherent downconversion via photoconductive antennas, even without external amplification. The metrological-grade optical soliton source produces single-cycle, naturally zero carrier-envelope offset millimetrewave baseband combs. It supports time-domain spectroscopy without any need to temporally align the source and detection pulses, as the ultra-high phase coherence allows significant differences between the optical paths of the source and detection pulses, which we tested over 8m, finding no degradation even in freerunning operation. Finally, the multisoliton operation regime provides a simple way of spectrally tailoring the microwave output by selecting different optical soliton states. |
| title | Millimetre-Wave Comb Generated by an Optical Microcomb |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05005 |