{"id":231692,"date":"2026-02-20T05:24:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-chip-scale-microcomb-uses-lithium-niobate-to-generate-evenly-spaced-light"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:24:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:24:24","slug":"new-chip-scale-microcomb-uses-lithium-niobate-to-generate-evenly-spaced-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/new-chip-scale-microcomb-uses-lithium-niobate-to-generate-evenly-spaced-light","title":{"rendered":"New chip-scale microcomb uses lithium niobate to generate evenly spaced light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-chip-scale-microcomb-uses-lithium-niobate-to-generate-evenly-spaced-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a new way to generate ultra-precise, evenly spaced \u201ccombs\u201d of laser light on a photonic chip, a breakthrough that could miniaturize optical platforms like spectroscopic sensors or communication systems.<\/p>\n<p>The research was led by Marko Lon\u010dar, the Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at SEAS, and published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aeb5758\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Science Advances<\/i><\/a>. The paper\u2019s first author is Yunxiang Song, a graduate student in Quantum Science and Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied physicists in the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered a new way to generate ultra-precise, evenly spaced \u201ccombs\u201d of laser light on a photonic chip, a breakthrough that could miniaturize optical platforms like spectroscopic sensors or communication systems. The research was led by Marko Lon\u010dar, the Tiantsai [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231692","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=231692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}