Long-distance ranging with high precision using a soliton microcomb

Jindong Wang; Zhizhou Lu; Weiqiang Wang; Fumin Zhang; Jiawei Chen; Yang Wang; Jihui Zheng; Sai T. Chu; Wei Zhao; Brent E. Little; Xinghua Qu; Wenfu Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.408923

Photonics Research, Volume. 8, Issue 12, 1964(2020)

Long-distance ranging with high precision using a soliton microcomb On the Cover

Jindong Wang^1、†, Zhizhou Lu^2,3、†, Weiqiang Wang^2,5、†,*, Fumin Zhang^1,6、*, Jiawei Chen¹, Yang Wang^2,3, Jihui Zheng¹, Sai T. Chu⁴, Wei Zhao^2,3, Brent E. Little^2,3, Xinghua Qu¹, and Wenfu Zhang^2,3,7、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Precision Measuring Technology & Instruments, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China

²State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China

³University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

⁴Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

⁵e-mail: wwq@opt.ac.cn

⁶e-mail: zhangfumin@tju.edu.cn

⁷e-mail: wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Instrumentation and Measurements

Received: Sep. 8, 2020

Accepted: Oct. 28, 2020

Published Online: Dec. 1, 2020

The Author Email: Weiqiang Wang (wwq@opt.ac.cn), Fumin Zhang (zhangfumin@tju.edu.cn), Wenfu Zhang (wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.408923

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