Soliton frequency comb at microwave rates in a high-Q silica microresonator
Abstract
Frequency combs are having a broad impact on science and technology because they provide a way to coherently link radio/microwave-rate electrical signals with optical-rate signals derived from lasers and atomic transitions. Integrating these systems on a photonic chip would revolutionize instrumentation, time keeping, spectroscopy, navigation, and potentially create new mass-market applications. A key element of such a system-on-a-chip will be a mode-locked comb that can be self-referenced. The recent demonstration of soliton mode locking in crystalline and silicon nitride microresonators has provided a way to both mode lock and generate femtosecond time-scale pulses. Here, soliton mode locking is demonstrated in high-
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© 2015 Optical Society of America. Received 23 September 2015; revised 28 October 2015; accepted 17 November 2015 (Doc. ID 250710); published 17 December 2015. The authors thank Tobias Kippenberg and Victor Brasch at EPFL and also Michael Gorodetsky at Moscow State University for the helpful discussions and comments on this paper. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the QuASAR program (W911NF-14-1-0284) and PULSE programs (W31P4Q-14-1-0001), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (KJV.JPLNASA-1-JPL.1459106), the Kavli Nanoscience Institute, and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics Frontiers Center (PHY-1125565) with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Funding: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) (W31P4Q-14-1-0001, W911NF-14-1-0284); National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) (KJV.JPLNASA-1-JPL.1459106); Kavli Nanoscience Institute; Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, National Science Foundation (NSF) Physics Frontiers Center (PHY-1125565); Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.Attached Files
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- W31P4Q-14-1-0001
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
- W911NF-14-1-0284
- NASA
- KJV.JPLNASA-1-JPL.1459106
- Kavli Nanoscience Institute
- Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)
- NSF Physics Frontiers Center
- NSF
- PHY-1125565
- Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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