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:10.1038/s41467-017-01473-9

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

Affiliations

Seung Hoon Lee: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Dong Yoon Oh: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Qi-Fan Yang: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Boqiang Shen: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Heming Wang: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Ki Youl Yang: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Yu-Hung Lai: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Xu Yi: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Xinbai Li: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology
Kerry Vahala: T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology

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.

Published in Nature Communications

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