Kerr parametric oscillations and frequency comb generation from dispersion compensated silica micro-bubble resonators

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 16908-16913

  Li, Ming ^a   Wu, Xiang ^a   Liu, Liying ^a   Xu, Lei ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESONATORS; SILICA;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; CAVITY QUALITY FACTOR; FREQUENCY COMBS; HYPER-PARAMETRIC FREQUENCY CONVERSION; NONLINEAR PROCESS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATIONS; SOLID SILICA; THIN-WALL STRUCTURES;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; MICROBUBBLE; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROBUBBLES; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SILICON DIOXIDE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84880567717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016908     Document Type: Article

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