Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Electrically pumped photonic integrated soliton microcomb

  • Arslan S. Raja,
  • Andrey S. Voloshin,
  • Hairun Guo,
  • Sofya E. Agafonova,
  • Junqiu Liu,
  • Alexander S. Gorodnitskiy,
  • Maxim Karpov,
  • Nikolay G. Pavlov,
  • Erwan Lucas,
  • Ramzil R. Galiev,
  • Artem E. Shitikov,
  • John D. Jost,
  • Michael L. Gorodetsky,
  • Tobias J. Kippenberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08498-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Chip-based frequency combs promise many applications, but full integration requires the electrical pump source and the microresonator to be on the same chip. Here, the authors show such integration of a microcomb with < 100 GHz mode spacing without additional filtering cavities or on-chip heaters.