Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Photonic chip-based soliton frequency combs covering the biological imaging window

  • Maxim Karpov,
  • Martin H. P. Pfeiffer,
  • Junqiu Liu,
  • Anton Lukashchuk,
  • Tobias J. Kippenberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03471-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators provide excellent optical frequency comb sources for precision metrology and imaging techniques. Here, Karpov et al. demonstrate a chipscale octave-spanning soliton-based comb, operating at 1 μm wavelength that covers the biological imaging window.