2015-Present

Chao Xiang, Joel Guo, Warren Jin, Jonathan Peters, Weiqiang Xie, Lin Chang, Boqiang Shen, Heming Wang, Qi-Fan Yang, Lue Wu, David Kinghorn, Mario Paniccia, Kerry J. Vahala, Paul A. Morton and John E. Bowers
"High-performance lasers for fully integrated silicon nitride photonics"
arXiv:2104.08414

Mikael Mazur*, Myoung-Gyun Suh*, Attila Fülöp, Jochen Schröder, Victor Torres-Company, Magnus Karlsson, Kerry J. Vahala and Peter A. Andrekson
"High spectral efficiency coherent superchannel transmission with soliton microcombs"
Journal of Lightwave Technology (2021)

Heming Wang*, Boqiang Shen*, Lue Wu, Chengying Bao, Warren Jin, Lin Chang, Mark A. Leal, Avi Feshali, Mario Paniccia, John E. Bowers and Kerry J. Vahala
"Self-regulating soliton domain walls in microresonators"
arXiv:2103.10422

Qi-Fan Yang*, Qing-Xin Ji*, Lue Wu*, Boqiang Shen, Heming Wang, Chengying Bao, Zhiquan Yuan and Kerry J. Vahala
"Dispersive-wave induced noise limits in miniature soliton microwave sources"
Nature Communications 12, 1442 (2021)

Warren Jin*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Lin Chang*, Boqiang Shen*, Heming Wang*, Mark A. Leal, Lue Wu, Avi Feshali, Mario Paniccia, Kerry J. Vahala and John E. Bowers
"Hertz-linewidth semiconductor lasers using CMOS-ready ultra-high-Q microresonators"
Nature Photonics (2021)

Chengying Bao, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Boqiang Shen, Kemal Şafak, Anan Dai, Heming Wang, Lue Wu, Zhiquan Yuan, Qi-Fan Yang, Andrey B. Matsko, Franz X. Kärtner and Kerry J. Vahala
"Quantum diffusion of microcavity solitons"
Nature Physics (2021)
Nature Physics News and Views

Chengying Bao, Boqiang Shen, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Heming Wang, Kemal Şafak, Anan Dai, Andrey B. Matsko, Franz X. Kärtner and Kerry J. Vahala
"Oscillatory motion of a counterpropagating Kerr soliton dimer"
Physical Review A 103, L011501 (2021)

Heming Wang, Yu-Kun Lu, Lue Wu, Dong Yoon Oh, Boqiang Shen, Seung Hoon Lee, Kerry Vahala
"Dirac solitons in optical microresonators"
Light: Science & Applications 9, 205 (2020)

Heming Wang*, Lue Wu*, Zhiquan Yuan*, Kerry Vahala
"Towards milli-Hertz laser frequency noise on a chip"
arXiv:2010.09248

Lue Wu*, Heming Wang*, Qi-Fan Yang, Qing-Xin Ji, Boqiang Shen, Chengying Bao, Maodong Gao, Kerry Vahala
"Greater than one billion Q-factor for on-chip microresonators"
Optics Letters 45, 5129-5131 (2020)

Zhiquan Yuan*, Heming Wang*, Lue Wu*, Maodong Gao, Kerry Vahala
"Linewidth enhancement factor in a microcavity Brillouin laser"
Optica 7, 1150-1153 (2020)

Scott A. Diddams, Kerry Vahala, Thomas Udem
"Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum"
Science 369, eaay3676 (2020)

Boqiang Shen*, Lin Chang*, Junqiu Liu*, Heming Wang*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Chao Xiang, Rui Ning Wang, Jijun He, Tianyi Liu, Weiqiang Xie, Joel Guo, Dave Kinghorn, Lue Wu, Qing-Xin Ji, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Kerry Vahala, John E. Bowers
"Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs"
Nature 582, 365–369 (2020)
DARPA News
UCSB Press Release
EPFL Press Release
Caltech News

Chengying Bao*, Zhiquan Yuan*, Heming Wang, Lue Wu, Boqiang Shen, Keeyoon Sung, Stephanie Leifer, Qiang Lin, and Kerry Vahala
"Interleaved difference-frequency generation for microcomb spectral densification in the mid-infrared"
Optica 7, 309-315 (2020)

Heming Wang*, Yu-Hung Lai*, Zhiquan Yuan*, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Kerry Vahala
"Petermann-factor sensitivity limit near an exceptional point in a Brillouin ring laser gyroscope"
Nature Communications 11, 1610 (2020)
Nature Communications Comment

Lin Chang*, Weiqiang Xie*, Haowen Shu*, Qifan Yang, Boqiang Shen, Andreas Boes, Jon D. Peters, Warren Jin, Songtao Liu, Gregory Moille, Su-Peng Yu, Xingjun Wang, Kartik Srinivasan, Scott B. Papp, Kerry Vahala, John E. Bowers
"Ultra-efficient frequency comb generation in AlGaAs-on-insulator microresonators"
Nature Communications 11, 1331 (2020)

Liron Stern, Jordan R. Stone, Songbai Kang, Daniel C. Cole, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Connor Fredrick, Zachary Newman, Kerry Vahala, John Kitching, Scott A Diddams, Scott B. Papp
"Direct Kerr frequency comb atomic spectroscopy and stabilization"
Science Advances 6, eaax6230 (2020)

Yu-Hung Lai*, Myoung-Gyun Suh*, Yu-Kun Lu, Boqiang Shen, Qi-Fan Yang, Heming Wang, Jiang Li, Seung Hoon Lee, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry Vahala
"Earth rotation measured by a chip-scale ring laser gyroscope"
Nature Photonics 14, 345-349 (2020)
Nature Photonics News and Views

Yu-Hung Lai*, Yu-Kun Lu*, Myoung-Gyun Suh*, Zhiquan Yuan, and Kerry Vahala
"Observation of the exceptional-point-enhanced Sagnac effect"
Nature 576, 65–69 (2019)

Yang He*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Jingwei Ling, Rui Luo, Hanxiao Liang, Mingxiao Li, Boqiang Shen, Heming Wang, Kerry Vahala, and Qiang Lin
"Self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO₃ soliton microcomb"
Optica 6, 1138-1144 (2019)

Chengying Bao*, Myoung-Gyun Suh*, and Kerry Vahala
"Microresonator soliton dual-comb imaging"
Optica 6, 1110-1116 (2019)

Zachary L. Newman, Vincent Maurice, Tara Drake, Jordan R. Stone, Travis C. Briles, Daryl T. Spencer, Connor Fredrick, Qing Li, Daron Westly, B. R. Ilic, Boqiang Shen, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Ki Youl Yang, Cort Johnson, David M. S. Johnson, Leo Hollberg, Kerry J. Vahala, Kartik Srinivasan, Scott A. Diddams, John Kitching, Scott B. Papp, and Matthew T. Hummon
"Architecture for the photonic integration of an optical atomic clock"
Optica 6, 680-685 (2019)
NIST Press Release

Myoung-Gyun Suh, Christine Y. Wang, Cort Johnson, Kerry J. Vahala
"Directly pumped 10 GHz microcomb modules from low-power diode lasers"
Optics Letters 44, 1841-1843 (2019)

Qi-Fan Yang*, Boqiang Shen*, Heming Wang*, Minh Tran, Zhewei Zhang, Ki Youl Yang, Lue Wu, Chengying Bao, John Bowers, Amnon Yariv, and Kerry Vahala
"Vernier spectrometer using counterpropagating soliton microcombs"
Science 363, 965-968 (2019)

Myoung-Gyun Suh, Xu Yi, Yu-Hung Lai, S. Leifer, Ivan S. Grudinin, G. Vasisht, Emily C. Martin, Michael P. Fitzgerald, G. Doppmann, J. Wang, D. Mawet, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams, C. Beichman, and Kerry Vahala
"Searching for Exoplanets Using a Microresonator Astrocomb"
Nature Photonics 13, 25–30 (2019)
Nature Reviews Physics Research Highlights
Nature Astronomy News and Views

Daniel C. Cole, Jordan R. Stone, Miro Erkintalo, Ki Youl Yang, Xu Yi, Kerry J. Vahala, and Scott B. Papp
"Kerr-microresonator solitons from a chirped background"
Optica 5, 1304-1310 (2018)

Xu Yi*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Ki Youl Yang, and Kerry Vahala
"Imaging soliton dynamics in optical microcavities"
Nature Communications 9, 3565 (2018)

Xinbai Li*, Boqiang Shen*, Heming Wang*, Ki Youl Yang*, Xu Yi, Qi-Fan Yang, Zhiping Zhou, and Kerry Vahala
"Universal isocontours for dissipative Kerr solitons"
Optics Letters 43, 2567-2570 (2018)

Daryl T. Spencer, Tara Drake, Travis C. Briles, Jordan Stone, Laura C. Sinclair, Connor Fredrick, Qing Li, Daron Westly, B. Robert Ilic, Aaron Bluestone, Nicolas Volet, Tin Komljenovic, Lin Chang, Seung Hoon Lee, Dong Yoon Oh, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Ki Youl Yang, Martin H. P. Pfeiffer, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Erik Norberg, Luke Theogarajan, Kerry Vahala, Nathan R. Newbury, Kartik Srinivasan, John E. Bowers, Scott A. Diddams, and Scott B. Papp
"An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics"
Nature 557, 81-85 (2018)

Nicolas Volet, Xu Yi, Qi‐Fan Yang, Eric J. Stanton, Paul A. Morton, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry J. Vahala, and John E. Bowers
"Micro‐Resonator Soliton Generated Directly with a Diode Laser"
Laser & Photonics Reviews 12, 1700307 (2018)

Ki Youl Yang*, Dong Yoon Oh*, Seung Hoon Lee*, Qi-Fan Yang, Xu Yi, Boqiang Shen, Heming Wang, and Kerry J. Vahala
"Bridging ultrahigh-Q devices and photonic circuits"
Nature Photonics 12, 297-302 (2018)

Myoung-Gyun Suh and Kerry J. Vahala
"Soliton Microcomb Range Measurement"
Science 359, 884-887 (2018)

Myoung-Gyun Suh and Kerry J. Vahala
"Gigahertz-repetition-rate soliton microcombs"
Optica 5, 65-66 (2018)

Seung Hoon Lee*, Dong Yoon Oh*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Boqiang Shen*, Heming Wang*, Ki Youl Yang, Yu-Hung Lai, Xu Yi, Xinbai Li and Kerry J. Vahala
"Towards Visible Soliton Microcomb Generation"
Nature Communications 8, 1295 (2017)

Myoung-Gyun Suh*, Qi-Fan Yang*, and Kerry J. Vahala
"Phonon-Limited-Linewidth of Brillouin Lasers at Cryogenic Temperatures"
Physical Review Letters 119, 143901 (2017)

Yu-Hung Lai, Ki Youl Yang, Myoung-Gyun Suh, and Kerry J. Vahala
"Fiber taper characterization by optical backscattering reflectometry"
Optics Express 25, 22312-22327 (2017)

Qi-Fan Yang*, Xu Yi*, Ki Youl Yang, and Kerry J. Vahala
"Counter-propagating solitons in microresonators"
Nature Photonics 11, 560–564 (2017)

Xu Yi*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Xueyue Zhang*, Ki Youl Yang, Xinbai Li, and Kerry J. Vahala
"Single-mode dispersive waves and soliton microcomb dynamics"
Nature Communications 8, 14869 (2017)

Jiang Li, Myoung-Gyun Suh, and Kerry Vahala
"Microresonator Brillouin gyroscope"
Optica 4, 346-348 (2017)

Dong Yoon Oh* , Ki Youl Yang* , Connor Fredrick* , Gabriel Ycas , Scott A. Diddams, and Kerry J. Vahala
"Coherent ultra-violet to near-infrared generation in silica ridge waveguides"
Nature Communications 8, 13922 (2017)

Myoung-Gyun Suh*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Ki Youl Yang, Xu Yi, and Kerry J. Vahala
"Microresonator soliton dual-comb spectroscopy"
Science 354, 600-603 (2016)

Qi-Fan Yang*, Xu Yi*, Ki Youl Yang, and Kerry Vahala
"Spatial-mode-interaction-induced dispersive waves and their active tuning in microresonators"
Optica 3, 1132-1135 (2016)

Qi-Fan Yang*, Xu Yi*, Ki Youl Yang, and Kerry Vahala
"Stokes solitons in optical microcavities"
Nature Physics 13, 53-57 (2016)

Xu Yi*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Ki Youl Yang, and Kerry Vahala
"Theory and measurement of the soliton self-frequency shift and efficiency in optical microcavities"
Optics Letters 41, 3419-3422 (2016)

Pascal Del'Haye, Aurélien Coillet, Tara Fortier, Katja Beha, Daniel C. Cole, Ki Youl Yang, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott B. Papp, and Scott A. Diddams
"Phase-coherent microwave-to-optical link with a self-referenced microcomb"
Nature Photonics 10, 516-520 (2016)

Xu Yi*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Ki Youl Yang, and Kerry Vahala
"Active capture and stabilization of temporal solitons in microresonators"
Optics Letters 41, 2037-2040 (2016)

Ki Youl Yang, Katja Beha, Daniel C. Cole, Xu Yi, Pascal Del'Haye, Hansuek Lee, Jiang Li, Dong Yoon Oh, Scott A. Diddams, Scott B. Papp, and Kerry J. Vahala
"Broadband dispersion-engineered microresonator on a chip"
Nature Photonics 10, 316–320 (2016)

X. Yi, K. Vahala, J. Li, S. Diddams, G. Ycas, P. Plavchan, S. Leifer, J. Sandhu, G. Vasisht, P. Chen, P. Gao, J. Gagne, E. Furlan, M. Bottom, E. C. Martin, M. P. Fitzgerald, G. Doppmann, and C. Beichman
"Demonstration of a near-IR line-referenced electro-optical laser frequency comb for precision radial velocity measurements in astronomy"
Nature Communications 7, 10436 (2016)

Xu Yi*, Qi-Fan Yang*, Ki Youl Yang*, Myoung-Gyun Suh, and Kerry Vahala
"Soliton frequency comb at microwave rates in a high-Q silica microresonator"
Optica 2, 1078-1085 (2015)

William Loh, Adam A. S. Green, Fred N. Baynes, Daniel C. Cole, Franklyn J. Quinlan, Hansuek Lee, Kerry J. Vahala, Scott B. Papp, and Scott A. Diddams
"Dual-microcavity narrow-linewidth Brillouin laser"
Optica 2, 225-232 (2015)