Self-locked optical parametric oscillation in a CMOS compatible microring resonator: A route to robust optical frequency comb generation on a chip

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 13333-13341

  Pasquazi, Alessia ^a,b   Caspani, Lucia ^a   Peccianti, Marco ^a,c   Clerici, Matteo ^a,d   Ferrera, Marcello ^a   Razzari, Luca ^a   Duchesne, David ^a,e   Little, Brent E ^f   Chu, Sai T ^g   Moss, David J ^h   Morandotti, Roberto ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f INFINERA CORPORATION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PUMPING (LASER);

CMOS COMPATIBLE; EXPERIMENTAL SET UP; MICROCAVITY RESONATOR; MICRORING RESONATOR; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMB GENERATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATIONS; THERMAL LOCKING; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

LOCKS (FASTENERS);

EID: 84878830795     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.013333     Document Type: Article

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