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Abstract Kerr microcombs have drawn substantial interest as mass-manufacturable, compact alternatives to bulk frequency combs. This could enable the deployment of many comb-reliant applications previously confined to laboratories. Particularly enticing is the prospect of microcombs performing optical frequency division in compact optical atomic clocks. Unfortunately, it is difficult to meet the self-referencing requirement of microcombs in these systems owing to the approximately terahertz repetition rates typically required for octave-spanning comb generation. In addition, it is challenging to spectrally engineer a microcomb system to align a comb mode with an atomic clock transition with a sufficient signal-to-noise ratio. Here we adopt a Vernier dual-microcomb scheme for optical frequency division of a stabilized ultranarrow-linewidth continuous-wave laser at 871 nm to an ~235 MHz output frequency. This scheme enables shifting an ultrahigh-frequency (~100 GHz) carrier-envelope offset beat down to frequencies where detection is possible and simultaneously placing a comb line close to the 871 nm laser—tuned so that, if frequency doubled, it would fall close to the clock transition in¹⁷¹Yb⁺. Our dual-comb system can potentially combine with an integrated ion trap towards future chip-scale optical atomic clocks. 

We report a scheme for programming microresonator-based spectral pulse shapers and demonstrate it with a six-channel, sub-GHz linewidth, silicon photonic spectral shaper to generate arbitrary waveforms from optical lines of a 3 GHz electro-optic comb. 

We report on the manipulation of the time-resolved biphoton correlation function using a sub-GHz resolution silicon nitride microresonator-based spectral shaper capa-ble of programmable amplitude and phase modulation. 

We demonstrate a silicon photonic integrated circuit fabricated through the CMOS manufacturing process, which features a bidirectionally pumped microring to achieve over 116 high-fidelity polarization entangled channels covering the entire optical C+L-band for flex-grid entanglement distribution. 

We propose and analyze the use of linear, time-variant cavities for spectral compression of broadband frequency correlated photon pairs, with potential applications in quantum networking. Our time-varying cavity relies on rapid electro-optic switching of input coupling to the cavity.