Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Towards visible soliton microcomb generation

  • Seung Hoon Lee,
  • Dong Yoon Oh,
  • Qi-Fan Yang,
  • Boqiang Shen,
  • Heming Wang,
  • Ki Youl Yang,
  • Yu-Hung Lai,
  • Xu Yi,
  • Xinbai Li,
  • Kerry Vahala

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01473-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Chip-based microresonator frequency combs are currently limited to the infrared spectral region. Here, the authors generate combs whose center frequency approaches the visible spectrum enabled by combining geometrical and mode-hybridization dispersion control in silica microresonators.