Observation of correlation between route to formation, coherence, noise, and communication performance of Kerr combs

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29284-29295

  Wang, Pei Hsun ^a   Ferdous, Fahmida ^a   Miao, Houxun ^b,c   Wang, Jian ^a   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Srinivasan, Kartik ^b   Chen, Lei ^b   Aksyuk, Vladimir ^b   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SILICON NITRIDE;

10-GBIT/S; CASCADED FOUR-WAVE MIXING; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; INTENSITY NOISE; LINE SPACING; LOW NOISE; MICRO RESONATORS; MULTI-WAVELENGTH SOURCE; ON CHIPS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; TIME DOMAIN;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84872040088     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029284     Document Type: Article

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