Broadband parametric frequency comb generation with a 1-μm pump source

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26935-26941

  Saha, Kasturi ^a   Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^a   Levy, Jacob S ^a   Lau, Ryan K W ^a   Luke, Kevin ^a   Foster, Mark A ^a   Lipson, Michal ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND FREQUENCY; DISPERSION ENGINEERING; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; FREQUENCY COMBS; PARAMETRIC FOUR-WAVE MIXING; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATIONS; PUMP LASER; PUMP SOURCES; PUMP WAVELENGTH; RING RESONATOR; SINGLE-FREQUENCY;

DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; NITRIDES;

PUMPING (LASER);

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; LASER; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; LASERS; LIGHT; OPTICAL DEVICES; REFRACTOMETRY; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84870580775     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026935     Document Type: Conference Paper

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