Publications

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Preprints 

1. Hybrid Kerr-electro-optic frequency combs on thin-film lithium niobate
   Y.Song, Y.Hu, M.Lončar, K.Yang
   arXiv:2402.11669. 

Peer reviewed publications 

1. Octave-spanning Kerr soliton frequency combs in dispersion- and dissipation-engineered lithium niobate microresonators  
   Y.Song, Y.Hu, X.Zhu, K.Yang, M.Lončar
   Light: Science & Applications (In press), 2024.

2. Modular Aptamer Switches for the Continuous Optical Detection of Small-Molecule Analytes in Complex Media
   A.A.Hariri, A.P.Cartwright, C.Dory, Y.Gidi, S.Yee, K.Fu, K.Yang, D.Wu, I.A.P.Thompson, N.Maganzini, T.Feagin, B.E.Young, B.H.Afshar, M.Eisenstein, M.Digonnet, J.Vučković, H.T.Soh
   Advanced Materials 36, 2304110, 2023. 

3. Inverse-designed Silicon Carbide Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics
   J.Yang, M.A.Guidry, D.M.Lukin, K.Yang, J.Vučković
   Light: Science & Applications 12, 201, 2023.

4. Multimode squeezing in soliton crystal microcombs
   M.A.Guidry, D.M.Lukin, K.Yang, J.Vučković
   Optica 10, 694-701, 2023.

5. Inverse design of optical vortex beam emitters
   A.D.White, L.Su, D.I.Shahar, K.Yang, G.H.Ahn, J.Skarda, S.Ramachandran, J.Vučković
   ACS Photonics 10, 803-807, 2023 [Invited paper].

6. Integrated passive nonlinear optical isolators
   A.D.White, G.H.Ahn, K.Van Gasse, K.Yang, L.Chang, J.E.Bowers, J.Vučković
   Nature Photonics 17, 143-149, 2023.

7. Multi-dimensional optical data transmission using inverse-designed silicon photonics and microcombs
   K.Yang, C.Shirpurkar, A.D.White, J.Zang, L.Chang, F.Ashtiani, M.A.Guidry, D.M.Lukin, S.V.Pericherla, J.Yang, H.Kwon, J.Lu, G.H.Ahn, K.Van Gasse, Y.Jin, S.-P.Yu, T.C.Briles, J.R.Stone, D.R.Carlson, H.Song, K.Zou, H.Zhou, K.Pang, H.Hao, L.Trask, M.Li, A.Netherton, L.Rechtman, J.S.Stone, J.L.Skarda, L.Su, D.Vercruysse, J.P.W.MacLean, S.Aghaeimeibodi, M.-J.Li, D.A.B.Miller, D.M.Marom, A.E.Willner, J.E.Bowers, S.B.Papp, P.J.Delfyett, F.Aflatouni, J.Vučković
   Nature Communications 13, 7862, 2022.

8. Creating boundaries along a synthetic frequency dimension
   A.Dutt, L.Yuan, K.Yang, K.Wang, S.Buddhiraju, J.Vučković, S.Fan
   Nature Communications 13, 3377, 2022.

9. Photonic crystal resonators for inverse-designed multidimensional optical interconnects
   C.Shirpurkar, J.Zhang, K.Yang, D.Carson, S.-P.Yu, S.V.Pericherla, J.Yang, M.A.Guidry, D.M.Lukin, G.H.Ahn, J.Lu, L.Trask, F.Aflatouni, J.Vučković, S.B.Papp, P.J.Delfyett
   Optics Letters 47, 3063-3066, 2022.

10. Photonic Inverse Design of On-Chip Microresonators
    G.H.Ahn, K.Yang, R.Trivedi, L.Su, A.D.White, J.Skarda, J.Vučković
    ACS Photonics 9, 1875-1881, 2022.

11. Quantum optics of soliton microcomb
    M.A.Guidry, D.M.Lukin, K.Yang, R.Trivedi, J.Vučković
    Nature Photonics 16, 52-58, 2022.

12. Inverse-designed photonic crystal circuits for optical beam steering
    D.Vercruysse, N.V.Sapra, K.Yang, J.Vučković
    ACS Photonics 8, 3085-3093, 2021.

13. Generating arbitrary topological windings of a non–Hermitian band
    K.Wang, A.Dutt, K.Yang, C.C.Wojcik, J.Vučković, S.Fan
    Science 371, 1240-1245, 2021.

14. Optical parametric oscillation in silicon carbide nanophotonics
    M.Guidry, K.Yang, D.Lukin, A.Markosyan, J.Yang, M.M.Fejer, J.Vučković
    Optica 7, 1139-1142, 2020.

15. Inverse-designed nonreciprocal pulse router for chip-based LiDAR
    K.Yang, J.Skarda, M.Cotrufo, A.Dutt, G.H.Ahn, M.Sawaby, D.Vercruysse, A.Arbabian, S.Fan, A.Alù, J.Vučković
    Nature Photonics 14, 369-374, 2020.

16. Earth rotation measured by a chip-scale ring laser gyroscope
    Y.H.Lai, M.G.Suh, Y.K.Lu, B.Shen, Q.F.Yang, J.Li, S.H.Lee, K.Yang, K.Vahala
    Nature Photonics 14, 345-349, 2020.

17. 4H-Silicon-Carbide-on-Insulator for Integrated Quantum and Nonlinear Photonics
    D.M.Lukin, C.Dory, M.Guidry, K.Yang, S.D.Mishra, R.Trivedi, M.Radulaski, S.Sun, D.Vercruysse, G.Ahn, J.Vučković
    Nature Photonics 14, 330-334, 2020.

18. On-chip integrated laser-driven particle accelerator
    N.V.Sapra, K.Yang, D.Vercruysse, K.L.Leedle, D.S.Black, R.J.England, L.Su, Y.Miao, O.Solgaard, R.L.Byer, J.Vučković
    Science 367, 79-83, 2020.

19. Inverse-designed diamond photonics
    C.Dory, D.Vercruysse, K.Yang, N.V.Sapra, A.Rugar, S.Sun, D.M.Lukin, A.Piggott, J.L.Zhang, M.Radulaski, K.Lagoudakis, L.Su, J.Vučković
    Nature Communications 10, 3309, 2019.

20. Challenges in simulating beam dynamics of dielectric laser acceleration
    U.Niedermayer, A.Adelmann, S.Bettoni, M.Calvi, M.Dehler, E.Ferrari, F.Frei, D.Hauenstein, B.Hermann, N.Hiller, R.Ischebeck, C.Lombosi, E.Prat, S.Reiche, L.Rivkin, R.Abmann, U.Dorda, I.Hartl, W.Kuropka, F.Lemery, B.Marchetti, F.Mayet, H.Xuan, J.Zhu, D.Black, P.Broaddus, R.L.Byer, A.Ceballos, H.Deng, S.Fan, J.Harris, T.Hirano, T.W.Hughes, Y.Jiang, T.Langenstein, K.Leedle, Y.Miao, A.Ody, A.Piggott, N.Sapra, O.Solgaard, L.Su, S.Tan, J.Vuckovic, K.Yang, Z.Zhao, O.Boine-Frankenheim, T.Egenolf, E.Skaear, D.Cesar, P.Musumeci, B.Naranjo, J.Rosenzweig, X.Shen, B.Cowan, R.J.England, Z.Huang, H.Cankaya, M.Fakhari, A.Fallahi, F.X.Kaeartner, T.Feurer, P.Hommelhoff, J.Illmer, A.Li, A.Mittelbach, J.McNeur, N.Schoenenberger, R.Shiloh, A.Tafel, P.Yousefi, M.Kozak, M.Qi, Y.Lee, Y.-Huang, E.Simakov
    International J. of Modern Physics A 34, 1942031, 2019.

21. Architecture for the photonic integration of an optical atomic clock
    Z.L.Newman, V.Maurice, T.E.Drake, J.R.Stone, T.C.Briles, D.T.Spencer, C.Fredrick, Q.Li, D.Westly, B.R.Ilic, B.Sheng, M.-G.Suh, K.Yang, C.Johnson, D.M.S.Johnson, L.Hollberg, K.Vahala, K.Srinivasan, S.A.Diddams, J.Kitching, S.B.Papp, M.T.Hummon
    Optica 6, 680-685, 2019.

22. Vernier spectrometer using counter-propagating soliton microcombs
    Q.-F.Yang, B.Shen, H.Wang, M.Tran, Z.Zhang, K.Yang, L.Wu, C.Bao, J.Bowers, A.Yariv, K.Vahala
    Science 363, 965-968, 2019.

23. Inverse design and demonstration of broadband grating couplers
    N.V.Sapra, D.Vercruysse, L.Su, K.Yang, J.L.Skarda, A.Y.Piggott, J.Vučković
    IEEE J. of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 25, 1-7, 2019 [Invited paper].

24. Kerr-microresonator solitons from a chirped background
    D.C.Cole, J.R.Stone, M.Erkintalo, K.Yang, X.Yi, K.Vahala, S.Papp
    Optica 5, 10, 1304-1310, 2018.

25. Imaging soliton dynamics in optical microcavities
    X.Yi, Q.-F.Yang, K.Yang, K.Vahala
    Nature Communications 9, 3656, 2018.

26. Bridging ultra-high-Q devices and photonic circuits
    K.Yang, D.Y.Oh, S.H.Lee, Q.-F.Yang, X.Yi, B.Shen, H.Wang, K.Vahala
    Nature Photonics 12, 297-302, 2018.

27. An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics
    D.T.Spencer, T.Drake, T.C.Briles, J.Stone, L.C.Sinclair, C.Fredrick, Q.Li, D.Westly, B.R.Ilic, A.Bluestone, N.Volet, T.Komljenovic, L.Chang, S.H.Lee, D.Y.Oh, M.-G.Suh, K.Yang, M.H.P.Pfeiffer, T.J.Kippenberg, E.Norberg, L.Theogarajan, K.Vahala, N.R.Newbury, K.Srinivasan, J.E.Bowers, S.A.Diddams, S.B.Papp
    Nature 557, 81-85, 2018.

28. Universal isocontours for dissipative Kerr solitons
    X.Li, B.Shen, H.Wang, K.Yang, X.Yi, Q.-F.Yang, Z. Zhou, K.Vahala
    Optics Letters 43, 2567-2570, 2018 .

29. Micro-resonator soliton generated directly with a diode laser
    N.Volet, X.Yi, Q.-F.Yang, E.J.Stanton, P.A.Morton, K.Yang, K.Vahala, J.E.Bowers
    Laser & Photonics Reviews 1700307, 2018.

30. Towards visible soliton microcomb generation
    S.H.Lee, D.Y.Oh, Q.-F.Yang, B.Shen, H.Wang, K.Yang, Y.H.Lai, X.Yi, K.Vahala
    Nature Communications 8, 1295, 2017.

31. Counter-propagating solitons in microresonators
    Q.Yang, X.Yi, K.Yang, K.Vahala
    Nature Photonics 11, 560-564, 2017

32. Fiber taper characterization by optical backscattering reflectometry
    Y.H.Lai, K.Yang, M.-G.Suh, K.Vahala
    Optics Express 25, 22312-22327, 2017.

33. Single-mode dispersive waves and soliton microcomb dynamics
    X.Yi, Q.-F.Yang, X.Zhang, K.Yang, X.Li, K.Vahala
    Nature Communications 8, 14869, 2017.

34. Coherent ultra-violet to near-infrared generation in silica ridge waveguides
    D.Y.Oh, K.Yang, C.Fredrick, G.Ycas, S.A.Diddams, K.Vahala
    Nature Communications 8, 13922, 2017.

35. Stokes solitons in optical microcavities
    Q.-F.Yang, X.Yi, K.Yang, K.Vahala
    Nature Physics 13, 53-57, 2017.

36. Microresonator soliton dual-comb spectroscopy
    M.-G.Suh, Q.-F.Yang, K.Yang, X.Yi, K.Vahala
    Science 354, 600-603, 2016.

37. Spatial-mode-interaction-induced dispersive-waves and their active tuning in microresonators
    Q.-F.Yang, X.Yi, K.Yang, K.Vahala
    Optica 3, 1132-1135, 2016.

38. Theory and measurement of the soliton self-frequency shift and efficiency in optical microcavities
    X.Yi, Q.-F.Yang, K.Yang, K.Vahala
    Optics Letters 41, 3419-3422, 2016.

39. Phase-coherent microwave-to-optical link with a self-referenced microcomb
    P.Del’Haye, A.Coillet, T.Fortier, K.Beha, D.C.Cole, K.Yang, H.Lee, K.Vahala, S.Papp, S.Diddams
    Nature Photonics 10, 516-520, 2016.

40. Broadband dispersionengineered microresonator on a chip
    K.Yang, K.Beha, D.Cole, X.Yi, P.Del’Haye, H.Lee, J.Li, D.Y.Oh, S.Diddams, S.Papp, K.Vahala
    Nature Photonics 10, 316-320, 2016.

41. Active capture and stabilization of temporal solitons in microresonators
    X.Yi, Q.-F.Yang, K.Yang, K.Vahala
    Optics Letters 41, 2037-2040, 2016.

42. Soliton frequency comb at microwave rates in a high-Q silica microresonator
    X.Yi, Q.-F.Yang, K.Yang, M.-G.Suh, K.Vahala
    Optica 2, 1078-1085, 2015.

43. Supercontinuum generation in an on-chip Silica waveguide
    D.Y.Oh, D.Sell, H.Lee, K.Yang, S.A.Diddams, K.Vahala
    Optics Letters 39, 1046-1048, 2014.

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44. Sideband spectroscopy and dispersion measurement in microcavities
    J.Li, H.Lee, K.Yang, K.Vahala
    Optics Express 20, 26337-26344, 2012.

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45. Chemically etched ultra-high-Q resonator on a silicon chip
    H.Lee, T.Chen, J.Li, K.Yang, S.Jeon, O.Painter, K.Vahala
    Nature Photonics 6, 369-373, 2012.

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46. Subwavelength imaging with quantum metamaterials
    K.Yang, V.Giannini, A.O.Bak, H.Amrania, S.A.Maier, C.C.Phillips
    Physical Review B 86, 075309, 2012.

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47. Surface plasmon resonance enhanced photoconductivity in Cu nanoparticle films
    K.Yang, I.-S.Kang, C.W.Ahn,  K.C.Choi
    Optics Express 18, 16379-16386, 2010.

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48. Surface plasmon-enhanced energy transfer in an organic light-emitting device structure
    K.Yang, C.W.Ahn, K.C.Choi
    Optics Express 17, 11495-11504, 2009.

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49. Surface plasmon-enhanced spontaneous emission rate in an organic light-emitting device structure: cathode structure for plasmonic application
    K.Yang, C.W.Ahn, K.C.Choi
    Applied Physics Letters 94, 173301, 2009.