Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Monolithic lithium niobate photonic circuits for Kerr frequency comb generation and modulation

  • Cheng Wang,
  • Mian Zhang,
  • Mengjie Yu,
  • Rongrong Zhu,
  • Han Hu,
  • Marko Loncar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08969-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Kerr microcombs promise the miniaturization of frequency comb sources, but many applications require additional second-order nonlinearities. Here, Wang et al. demonstrate that comb generation and second-order functionalities can be monolithically integrated on a single lithium niobate chip.