Publications

G. M. Colación, L. Rukh, F. Buck, A. Zerrad, T. E. Drake, “Low-loss silicon nitride Kerr-microresonators fabricated with metallic etch masks via metal lift-off,” submitted, under review. DOI: arXiv preprints, arXiv:2503.21301. https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21301, permanent link

B. D. Stone, L. Rukh, G. M. Colación, T. E. Drake, “Mitigation of thermal instabilities in Kerr microcombs,” in CLEO 2025, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2025), paper SS122_7.

L. Rukh, B. D. Stone, G. M. Colación, T. E. Drake, “Modeling of Thermal Dynamics in a Silicon Nitride Microresonator,” in CLEO 2025, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2025), paper JPS200_117.

B. D. Stone, L. Rukh, G. M. Colación, T. E. Drake, “Reduction of thermal instability of soliton states in coupled Kerr-microresonators,” APL Photonics 10, 051301 (2025). permanent link

G. Colación, L. Rukh, T. Melton, A. Aldhafeeri, H.-H. Chin, C. W. Wong, and T. E. Drake, “Design and realization of octave-spanning, low fceo microcombs at sub-telecom wavelengths in silicon nitride,” in CLEO 2024, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2024), paper SF1P.3. permanent link

L. Rukh, B. Stone, G. Colación, E. Perez de Juan, T. E. Drake, “Mitigation of thermal instabilities in Kerr microcombs,” Proc. SPIE 12871, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XXVI, 1287109 (12 March 2024). 

B. Stone, L. Rukh, G. Colación, and T. Drake, "Enhanced thermal stability of soliton states in coupled Kerr microresonators," in Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science 2023 (FiO, LS), Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2023), paper JTu4A.44.

G. M. Colacion, L. Rukh, B. Stone, and T. E. Drake "Subtractive processing of thick silicon nitride waveguide resonators: a comparison of soft and hard etch templates", Proc. SPIE 12407, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XXV, 1240705.

L. Rukh, G. Colacion, and T. Drake, "Comparison of Soft and Hard Mask for Fabrication of High Q SiN Microring Resonators," in CLEO 2023, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2023), paper JTh2A.134.

H. Jung, S.-P. Yu, D. Carlson, T. E. Drake, T. C. Briles, S. B. Papp, “Tantala Kerr-nonlinear integrated photonics,” Optica 8 (6), 811-817 (2021).

T. E. Drake, J.R. Stone, T. C. Briles, and S. B. Papp, "Thermal decoherence and laser cooling of a Kerr-microresonator soliton," Nature Photonics 14, 480-485 (2020). permanent link

T. C. Briles, S.-P. Yu, T. E. Drake, J. R. Stone, and S. B. Papp, “Generating Octave-Bandwidth Soliton Frequency Combs with Compact Low-Power Semiconductor Lasers,” Phys. Rev. Applied 14, 014006 (2020).

T. E. Drake, T. C. Briles, D. T. Spencer, J. R. Stone, D. R. Carlson, D. D. Hickstein, Q. Li, D. Westly, K. Srinivasan, S. A. Diddams, S. B. Papp, "Terahertz-rate Kerr-microresonator optical clockwork," Phys. Rev. X 9, 031023 (2019). permanent link

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. Shen, M. -G. Suh, K. Y. Yang, C. Johnson, D. M. S. Johnson, L. Hollberg, K. Vahala, K. Srinivasan, S. A. Diddams, J. Kitching, S. B. Papp, M. T. Hummon, "Architecture for the photonic integration of an optical atomic clock," Optica 6, 680-685 (2019).

T. C. Briles, J. R. Stone, T. E. Drake, D. T. Spencer, C. Fredrick, Q. Li, D. Westly, B. R. Ilic, K. Srinivasan, S. A. Diddams, and S. B. Papp, “Interlocking Kerr-microresonator frequency for microwave to optical synthesis,” Optics Letters 43 (12), 2933-2936 (2018). 

J. R. Stone, T. C. Briles, T. E. Drake, D. T. Spencer, D. R. Carlson, S. A. Diddams, and S. B. Papp, “Thermal and Nonlinear Dissipative-Soliton Dynamics in Kerr-Microresonator Frequency Combs,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 063902 (2018).

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. Y. 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, and S. B. Papp, "An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics," Nature 557, 81-85 (2018).