A narrow-linewidth on-chip toroid raman laser

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 320-326

  Lu, Tao ^a   Yang, Lan ^b   Carmon, Tal ^c   Min, Bumki ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Laer noise; optical resonators; phase noise; Raman lasers

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE POWER; CONTINUOUS WAVE MODES; FREQUENCY NOISE; FREQUENCY NOISE SPECTRA; KERR NONLINEARITY; LAER NOISE; MODE SPLITTING; ON CHIPS; OUTPUT POWER; RAMAN LASERS; RELAXATION OSCILLATION FREQUENCIES; RUNNING CONDITIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

LINEWIDTH; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PHASE NOISE;

PUMPING (LASER);

EID: 79951971726     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2087742     Document Type: Article

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