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ArticleNature communications2026

Pump-threshold-free frequency comb via cavity Floquet engineering.

Sihan Wang, Cheng Wang, Matthijs H J de Jong, Laure Mercier de Lépinay, Jingwei Zhou, Mika A Sillanpää, Yulong Liu

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Customized Itinerant Frequency Combs by Cascaded Nonlinear Effects.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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Sihan WangBeijing Key Laboratory of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-2574-7292
Cheng WangDepartment of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.
Matthijs H J de JongDepartment of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0146-083X
Laure Mercier de LépinayDepartment of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9938-5825
Jingwei ZhouHefei National Research Center for Physics Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. zhoujw@ustc.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-1617-9447
Mika A SillanpääDepartment of Applied Physics, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4061-3015
Yulong LiuBeijing Key Laboratory of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information Sciences, Beijing, China. liuyl@baqis.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6884-5363

Funding

Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission Z221100002722011Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) GJJSTD20200001National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 12374325National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 92365210Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (Beijing Natural Science Foundation) Z240007
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Abstract

Frequency combs have revolutionized communication, metrology, and spectroscopy. Considerable efforts have been devoted to developing integrated combs, primarily leveraging Pockels or Kerr nonlinearities. Here, we demonstrate an alternative frequency comb generated via cavity Floquet engineering. By periodically modulating the cavity resonance frequency through a driven mechanical oscillator, a Floquet cavity with multiple equally spaced frequency components is created. These sidebands exhibit nearest-neighbor coupling and are phase-locked to the external modulation drive. A pump tone interacts with the pre-modulated cavity to generate the output frequency comb, which we implement in an on-chip microwave cavity optomechanical system. This approach operates independently of a pumping threshold and is insensitive to pump detuning. Consequently, it enables comb generation under far-sideband pumping with nanowatt-scale total power consumption, providing an ultra-low-power platform for integrated frequency comb synthesis.

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