Optical Frequency Comb Generation in Highly Nonlinear Fiber With Dual-Mode Square Microlasers

Hai-Zhong Weng; Yong-Zhen Huang; Xiu-Wen Ma; Yue-De Yang; Jin-Long Xiao; Jun-Yuan Han; Ming-Long Liao

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2780280

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2018)

Optical Frequency Comb Generation in Highly Nonlinear Fiber With Dual-Mode Square Microlasers

Hai-Zhong Weng,
Yong-Zhen Huang,
Xiu-Wen Ma,
Yue-De Yang,
Jin-Long Xiao,
Jun-Yuan Han,
Ming-Long Liao

Affiliations

Hai-Zhong Weng: State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, and the College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Yong-Zhen Huang: State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, and the College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Xiu-Wen Ma: State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, and the College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Yue-De Yang: State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, and the College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Jin-Long Xiao: State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, and the College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Jun-Yuan Han: State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, and the College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Ming-Long Liao: State Key Lab on Integrated Optoelectronics, Institute of Semiconductors, and the College of Materials Science and Optoelectronic Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2780280
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 2
pp. 1 – 9

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Optical frequency comb (OFC) generation based on four-wave mixing in highly nonlinear fiber (HNLF) is investigated using dual-transverse-mode square microlaser as a seed source. Dual-mode lasing microlasers with wavelength intervals from 1.11 to 0.36 nm are realized and applied for OFC generation at different square side lengths. For an 18- μm-side-length microlaser, a frequency comb with 50 nm bandwidth and 102 GHz line spacing is achieved using two stages of erbium-doped fiber amplifier and HNLF. A phase-locked comb with a pulse width of 1 ps is also verified using frequency resolved optical gating analyses. In addition, the comb linewidths are nearly linearly increased with the comb order, which is in agreement with the linewidth behavior determined by 1/ f noise. The results indicate that 1/f noise deteriorates the laser linewidth greatly.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
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