Intra-Cavity Dispersion of Microresonators and its Engineering for Octave-Spanning Kerr Frequency Comb Generation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Lin ^a   Mu, Jianwei ^a   Singh, Vivek ^a   Agarwal, Anuradha M ^a   Kimerling, Lionel C ^a   Michel, Jurgen ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion; frequency comb; integrated optics; micro resonator; nonlinear optics; silicon photonics; slot waveguide

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL RESONATORS; DISPERSION (WAVES); INTEGRATED OPTICS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTONICS; SILICON NITRIDE; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION FLATTENING; FREQUENCY COMBS; INTRA-CAVITY DISPERSION; MICRO RESONATORS; MICRORING RESONATOR; SILICON PHOTONICS; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84958156385     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2295177     Document Type: Article

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