Soliton frequency comb at microwave rates in a high-Q silica microresonator

Optica

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1078-1085

  Yi, Xu ^a   Yang, Qi Fan ^a   Yang, Ki Youl ^a   Suh, Myoung Gyun ^a   Vahala, Kerry ^a  

^a California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; LOCKS (FASTENERS); RESONATORS; SILICA; SILICON NITRIDE; SYSTEM-ON-CHIP;

ATOMIC TRANSITION; ELECTRICAL SIGNAL; FEMTOSECOND TIME SCALE; MASS-MARKET APPLICATIONS; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; SOLITON FORMATION; SOLITON FREQUENCIES; SYSTEM ON A CHIP;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84960954592     PISSN: 23342536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.2.001078     Document Type: Article

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