Investigation of mode coupling in normaldispersion silicon nitride microresonators for Kerr frequency comb generation

Optica

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 137-144

  Liu, Yang ^a   Xuan, Yi ^a   Xue, Xiaoxiao ^a   Wang, Pei Hsun ^a   Chen, Steven ^a   Metcalf, Andrew J ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Qi, Minghao ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Micro optical devices; Nonlinear optics, devices; Optical resonators

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; NITRIDES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SILICON NITRIDE;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; BANDWIDTH LIMITED PULSE; FREQUENCY METROLOGY; MICROOPTICAL DEVICES; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; NONLINEAR OPTICS , DEVICES; RADIO-FREQUENCY SIGNAL PROCESSING; SHORT PULSE GENERATION;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84911468395     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.1.000137     Document Type: Article

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