{"id":222374,"date":"2025-09-24T03:40:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/self-locked-microcomb-on-a-chip-tames-raman-scattering-to-achieve-broad-spectrum-and-stable-output"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:40:24","slug":"self-locked-microcomb-on-a-chip-tames-raman-scattering-to-achieve-broad-spectrum-and-stable-output","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/self-locked-microcomb-on-a-chip-tames-raman-scattering-to-achieve-broad-spectrum-and-stable-output","title":{"rendered":"Self-locked microcomb on a chip tames Raman scattering to achieve broad spectrum and stable output"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-locked-microcomb-on-a-chip-tames-raman-scattering-to-achieve-broad-spectrum-and-stable-output2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team has successfully developed a self-locked Raman-electro-optic (REO) microcomb on a single lithium niobate chip. By synergistically harnessing the electro-optic (EO), Kerr, and Raman effects within one microresonator, the microcomb has a spectral width exceeding 300 nm and a repetition rate of 26.03 GHz, without the need for external electronic feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The research was published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-60161-1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>. The team was led by Prof. Dong Chunhua from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in collaboration with Prof. Bo Fang\u2019s group from Nankai University.<\/p>\n<p>Optical frequency combs, light sources composed of equally spaced frequency lines, are essential tools in modern optical communications, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/precision+measurement\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">precision measurement<\/a>, and fundamental physics research. While traditional <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/optical+frequency+combs\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">optical-frequency combs<\/a> are typically based on bulky mode-locked lasers, recent advances in integrated photonics have enabled chip-scale Kerr and EO combs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team has successfully developed a self-locked Raman-electro-optic (REO) microcomb on a single lithium niobate chip. By synergistically harnessing the electro-optic (EO), Kerr, and Raman effects within one microresonator, the microcomb has a spectral width exceeding 300 nm and a repetition rate of 26.03 GHz, without the need for external electronic feedback. The research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}