All-fibre heterogeneously-integrated frequency comb generation using silicon core fibre

Ronit Sohanpal; Haonan Ren; Li Shen; Callum Deakin; Alexander M. Heidt; Thomas W. Hawkins; John Ballato; Ursula J. Gibson; Anna C. Peacock; Zhixin Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31637-1

Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

All-fibre heterogeneously-integrated frequency comb generation using silicon core fibre

Ronit Sohanpal,
Haonan Ren,
Li Shen,
Callum Deakin,
Alexander M. Heidt,
Thomas W. Hawkins,
John Ballato,
Ursula J. Gibson,
Anna C. Peacock,
Zhixin Liu

Affiliations

Ronit Sohanpal: Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London
Haonan Ren: School of Optoelectronic Engineering and Instrumentation Science, Dalian University of Technology
Li Shen: Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Callum Deakin: Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London
Alexander M. Heidt: Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern
Thomas W. Hawkins: Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
John Ballato: Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
Ursula J. Gibson: Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technologies, and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University
Anna C. Peacock: Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton
Zhixin Liu: Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College London

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31637-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Silicon core fibre is a highly nonlinear waveguide that combines the benefits of both fibre and planar waveguide systems. Here, the authors demonstrate frequency comb generation using a fully-fibre integrated silicon core fibre as a nonlinear mixer.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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