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Huang SW, Liu H, Yang J, et al. Smooth and flat phase-locked Kerr frequency comb generation by higher order mode suppression. Sci Rep. 2016;6:26255doi: 10.1038/srep26255.
Huang, S. W., Liu, H., Yang, J., Yu, M., Kwong, D. L., & Wong, C. W. (2016). Smooth and flat phase-locked Kerr frequency comb generation by higher order mode suppression. Scientific reports, 626255. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26255
Huang, S-W, et al. "Smooth and flat phase-locked Kerr frequency comb generation by higher order mode suppression." Scientific reports vol. 6 (2016): 26255. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26255
Huang SW, Liu H, Yang J, Yu M, Kwong DL, Wong CW. Smooth and flat phase-locked Kerr frequency comb generation by higher order mode suppression. Sci Rep. 2016 May 16;6:26255. doi: 10.1038/srep26255. PMID: 27181420; PMCID: PMC4867630.
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Sci Rep. 2016 May 16;6:26255. doi: 10.1038/srep26255.

Smooth and flat phase-locked Kerr frequency comb generation by higher order mode suppression.

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S-W Huang, H Liu, J Yang, M Yu, D-L Kwong, C W Wong

Affiliations

  1. Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA.
  2. Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore, Singapore.

PMID: 27181420 PMCID: PMC4867630 DOI: 10.1038/srep26255

Abstract

High-Q microresonator is perceived as a promising platform for optical frequency comb generation, via dissipative soliton formation. In order to achieve a higher quality factor and obtain the necessary anomalous dispersion, multi-mode waveguides were previously implemented in Si3N4 microresonators. However, coupling between different transverse mode families in multi-mode waveguides results in periodic disruption of dispersion and quality factor, and consequently causes perturbation to dissipative soliton formation and amplitude modulation to the corresponding spectrum. Careful choice of pump wavelength to avoid the mode crossing region is thus critical in conventional Si3N4 microresonators. Here, we report a novel design of Si3N4 microresonator in which single-mode operation, high quality factor, and anomalous dispersion are attained simultaneously. The novel microresonator is consisted of uniform single-mode waveguides in the semi-circle region, to eliminate bending induced mode coupling, and adiabatically tapered waveguides in the straight region, to avoid excitation of higher order modes. The intrinsic quality factor of the microresonator reaches 1.36 × 10(6) while the group velocity dispersion remains to be anomalous at -50 fs(2)/mm. With this novel microresonator, we demonstrate that broadband phase-locked Kerr frequency combs with flat and smooth spectra can be generated by pumping at any resonances in the optical C-band.

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