Self-locked optical parametric oscillation in a CMOS compatible microring resonator: a route to robust optical frequency comb generation on a chip

被引：96

作者：

Pasquazi, Alessia ^{[1
,2
]}

Caspani, Lucia ^{[1
]}

Peccianti, Marco ^{[1
,3
]}

Clerici, Matteo ^{[1
,4
]}

Ferrera, Marcello ^{[1
]}

Razzari, Luca ^{[1
]}

Duchesne, David ^{[1
,5
]}

Little, Brent E. ^{[6
]}

Chu, Sai T. ^{[7
]}

Moss, David J. ^{[8
]}

Morandotti, Roberto ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] INRS Energie Mat & Telecommun, Varennes, PQ J3X 1S2, Canada

[2] Univ Sussex, Dept Phys & Astron, Brighton BN1 9QH, E Sussex, England

[3] CNR, Inst Complex Syst, I-00185 Rome, Italy

[4] Heriot Watt Univ, SUPA, Sch Engn & Phys Sci, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Midlothian, Scotland

[5] MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[6] Infinera Ltd, Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA

[7] City Univ Hong Kong, Dept Phys & Mat Sci, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

[8] Univ Sydney, Sch Phys, IPOS, CUDOS, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2013年 / 21卷 / 11期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 澳大利亚研究理事会;

关键词：

MODE; SOLITONS; COHERENCE; NOISE;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.21.013333

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

We report a novel geometry for OPOs based on nonlinear microcavity resonators. This approach relies on a self-locked scheme that enables OPO emission without the need for thermal locking of the pump laser to the microcavity resonance. By exploiting a CMOS-compatible microring resonator, we achieve oscillation featured by a complete absence of "shutting down", i.e. the self-terminating behavior that is a very common and detrimental occurrence in externally pumped OPOs. Further, our scheme consistently produces very wide bandwidth (>300nm, limited by our experimental set-up) combs that oscillate at a spacing equal to the FSR of the micro cavity resonance. (C) 2013 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：13333 / 13341

页数：9

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