I am a PhD candidate in Applied Physics, Caltech. Group website
My research interest includes photonics. I have published 17 papers at journals and conferences .
🔥 News
- 2024.03:  🎉 Our paper “Multimodality integrated microresonators using the Moiré speedup effect” is published by Science!
- 2024.03:  🎉 Our paper “Photonic chip-based low-noise microwave oscillator” is published by Nature!
- 2023.08:  🎉 Our paper “3D integration enables ultralow-noise isolator-free lasers in silicon photonics” is published by Nature!
- 2023.08:  🎉 Our paper “Soliton pulse pairs at multiple colors in normal dispersion microresonators” is published by Nature Photonics!
- 2023.05:  📹 Our conference paper “Engineered zero GVD microcomb using CMOS ready photonics” is presented at CLEO 2023!
- 2023.02:  🎉 Our paper “Engineered zero-dispersion microcombs using CMOS-ready photonics” is published by Optica!
- 2022.06:  🎉 Our paper “Probing material absorption and optical nonlinearity of integrated photonic materials” is published by Nature Communications!
- 2022.05:  📹 Our conference paper “Efficiency of pulse pumped soliton microcombs” is presented at CLEO 2022!
- 2022.02:  🎉 Our paper “Efficiency of pulse pumped soliton microcombs” is published by Optica!
- 2022.02:  🎉 Our paper “Vibrational Kerr Solitons in an Optomechanical Microresonator” is published by Physical Review Letters!
- 2021.07:  🏫 I start working at Caltech, Pasadena, California.
đź“ť Publications
- Multimodality integrated microresonators using the Moiré speedup effect
- Perspective: Two rings to rule them all
Ji, Q. X., Liu, P., Jin, W., Guo, J., Wu, L., Yuan, Z., … & Vahala, K. J. (2024). Multimodality integrated microresonators using the Moiré speedup effect. Science, 383(6687), 1080-1083.
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Photonic chip-based low-noise microwave oscillator
Kudelin, I., Groman, W., Ji, QX. et al. Photonic chip-based low-noise microwave oscillator. Nature (2024).
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Soliton pulse pairs at multiple colours in normal dispersion microresonators
Yuan, Z., Gao, M., Yu, Y. et al. Soliton pulse pairs at multiple colours in normal dispersion microresonators. Nat. Photon. (2023).
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3D integration enables ultralow-noise isolator-free lasers in silicon photonics
Xiang, C., Jin, W., Terra, O. et al. 3D integration enables ultralow-noise isolator-free lasers in silicon photonics. Nature 620, 78–85 (2023).
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Engineered zero-dispersion microcombs using CMOS-ready photonics
Qing-Xin Ji, Warren Jin, Lue Wu, Yan Yu, Zhiquan Yuan, Wei Zhang, Maodong Gao, Bohan Li, Heming Wang, Chao Xiang, Joel Guo, Avi Feshali, Mario Paniccia, Vladimir S. Ilchenko, Andrey B. Matsko, John E. Bowers, and Kerry J. Vahala, “Engineered zero-dispersion microcombs using CMOS-ready photonics,” Optica 10, 279-285 (2023).
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Probing material absorption and optical nonlinearity of integrated photonic materials
Gao, M., Yang, QF., Ji, QX. et al. Probing material absorption and optical nonlinearity of integrated photonic materials. Nat Commun 13, 3323 (2022).
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Efficiency of pulse pumped soliton microcombs
Jiang Li, Chengying Bao, Qing-Xin Ji, Heming Wang, Lue Wu, Stephanie Leifer, Charles Beichman, and Kerry Vahala, “Efficiency of pulse pumped soliton microcombs,” Optica 9, 231-239 (2022)
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Vibrational Kerr Solitons in an Optomechanical Microresonator
Jia-Chen Shi, Qing-Xin Ji, Qi-Tao Cao, Yan Yu, Wenjing Liu, Qihuang Gong, and Yun-Feng Xiao Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 073901.
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Single-mode characteristic of a supermode microcavity Raman laser
P. J. Zhang, Q. X. Ji, Q. T. Cao, H. M. Wang, W. J. Liu, Q. H. Gong, Y. F. Xiao, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.USA 2021, 118, e2101605118.
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Dispersive-wave induced noise limits in miniature soliton microwave sources
Yang, QF., Ji, QX., Wu, L. et al. Dispersive-wave induced noise limits in miniature soliton microwave sources. Nat Commun 12, 1442 (2021).
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Greater than one billion Q factor for on-chip microresonators
Lue Wu, Heming Wang, Qifan Yang, Qing-xin Ji, Boqiang Shen, Chengying Bao, Maodong Gao, and Kerry Vahala, “Greater than one billion Q factor for on-chip microresonators,” Opt. Lett. 45, 5129-5131 (2020)
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Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs
Shen, B., Chang, L., Liu, J. et al. Integrated turnkey soliton microcombs. Nature 582, 365–369 (2020).
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Chaos-assisted two-octave-spanning microcombs
Chen, HJ., Ji, QX., Wang, H. et al. Chaos-assisted two-octave-spanning microcombs. Nat Commun 11, 2336 (2020).
đź“– Educations
- 2020.09 - Now, PhD candidate in Applied Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, California.
- 2021.01 - 2022.06, Master in Applied Physics, Caltech, Pasadena, California.
- 2016.09 - 2020.06, Undergraduate in Physics, Peking University, Beijing.
đź’» Internships
- 2020, research assistant at Yun-Feng Xiao research group, Peking University.