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

Alessia Pasquazi; Lucia Caspani; Marco Peccianti; Matteo Clerici; Marcello Ferrera; Luca Razzari; David Duchesne; Brent E. Little; Sai T Chu; David J Moss; Roberto Morandotti

doi:10.1364/OE.21.013333

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

Alessia Pasquazi^*, Lucia Caspani, Marco Peccianti, Matteo Clerici, Marcello Ferrera, Luca Razzari, David Duchesne, Brent E. Little, Sai T Chu, David J Moss, Roberto Morandotti

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Abstract

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

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	13333-13341
Number of pages	9
Journal	Optics Express
Volume	21
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.013333
Publication status	Published - 3 Jun 2013

Keywords

RING-RESONATOR
MICRORESONATOR
MODE
SOLITONS
MICROCAVITY
COHERENCE
METROLOGY
LASERS
NOISE

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Pasquazi, A., Caspani, L., Peccianti, M., Clerici, M., Ferrera, M., Razzari, L., Duchesne, D., Little, B. E., Chu, S. T., Moss, D. J., & Morandotti, R. (2013). Self-locked optical parametric oscillation in a CMOS compatible microring resonator: a route to robust optical frequency comb generation on a chip. Optics Express, 21(11), 13333-13341. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.013333

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

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