Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of an on-chip microresonator frequency comb

By F. Ferdous, H. Miao, Daniel E. Leaird, Kartik Srinivasan, Jian Wang, Lei Chen, L. Varghese, Andrew M. Weiner. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2011

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We report spectral phase characterization and optical arbitrary waveform generation of on-chip microresonator combs. Random relative frequency shifts due to uncorrelated variations of frequency dependent phase are at or below the 100 μHz level.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators (2018, background): “In this scenario, one can create fully coherent and relatively broadband-frequency combs, which has been the case for toroid resonators in the telecommunication band or crystalline resonators in the mid-infrared spectra range (82), and generally integrated resonators with a large FSR (31), which lea”
Programmable Single-Bandpass Photonic RF Filter Based on Kerr Comb from a Microring (2014, methodology): “To better probe the coherence of the comb lines, the phases were compensated line by line to generate a bandwidth-limited pulse after the pulse shaper 1 [16].”
Mode-locked dark pulse Kerr combs in normal-dispersion microresonators (2014, methodology): “The dynamics of Kerr comb generation have attracted intense investigations since the first demonstration of the method [11]-[28].”
Universal dynamics of Kerr-frequency comb formation in microresonators (2011, background): “The presented theory also explains the low RF frequency noise present in the comb spectrum and accounts for observations made in the time domain [11] where a partial loss of coherence was inferred from auto-correlation measurements.”
Optical frequency comb technology for ultra‐broadband radio‐frequency photonics (2014, background): “How exactly this process occurs and what are in turn the comb’s spectral coherence properties is an ongoing topic of research [170] [171].”
Photonic RF and microwave filters based on 49 GHz and 200 GHz Kerr microcombs (2020, background): “Most recently, Kerr micro-combs have demonstrated their enormous potential for sources for ultrahigh bandwidth coherent optical fiber communications [59], optical frequency synthesis [60] and many other applications [61-68].”
Temporal solitons in microresonators driven by optical pulses (2016, background): “Already now, such frequency combs have found application in coherent optical data transfer[34], arbitrary optical waveform generation[35], ultra-low noise electronic signal generation[21, 36, 37] and also hold promise for astronomical spectrometer calibration[38–40].”