Modelocked mid-infrared frequency combs in a silicon microresonator

By Mengjie Yu, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Austin G. Griffith, Michal Lipson, Alexander Gaeta. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2016

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We demonstrate a near-octave spanning and soliton modelocked mid-infrared frequency comb in a silicon microresonator. The soliton state can be accomplished via either pump laser detuning or electrical tuning of the free-carrier lifetime.

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

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A self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb (2018, background): “First observed in optical fiber systems [12] these coherently pumped solitons [13] have now been demonstrated in microresonators made from magnesium fluoride [11, 14, 15], silica [16, 17], silicon [18], and silicon nitride [15, 19–22].”
Mid-infrared integrated photonics on silicon: a perspective (2017, methodology): “The comb bandwidth is primarily determined by pump peak power, nonlinear coefficient, as well as dispersion properties of the resonator [84]; the noise can be suppressed via mode-locking the comb into a single-soliton state [105, 108]; and high power conversion efficiency (e.”
Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators (2018, methodology): “Since then, several techniques have been developed, from “power kicking” (74) to very fast laser modulation using single sideband modulators (75), as well as fast thermal on-chip tuning (19) and carrier injection (77).”