Modal expansion approach to optical-frequency-comb generation with monolithic whispering-gallery-mode resonators

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Chembo, Yanne K ^a,b   Yu, Nan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b FEMTO ST INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-STABILITY; COUPLING LOSS; DIRECT TRANSFER; FREQUENCY COMBS; KERR NONLINEARITY; MAIN CHARACTERISTICS; MODAL EXPANSION; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; RATE EQUATIONS; SPECTRAL MODULATION; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; THRESHOLD POWER; TIME DOMAIN; TUNABILITIES; WHISPERING GALLERY MODE RESONATOR; WHISPERING GALLERY MODES;

DISPERSIONS; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

RESONATORS;

EID: 77956538387     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.033801     Document Type: Article

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