Brighter comb lasers on a chip mean new applications (IMAGE)

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Brighter comb lasers on a chip mean new applications

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Researchers have shown that dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) can be used to create chip-based optical frequency combs with enough output power for use in optical atomic clocks and other practical applications. The advance could lead to chip-based instruments that can make precision measurements that were previously possible only in a few specialized laboratories.

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Grégory Moille, Joint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland

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