Robust generation of frequency combs in a microresonator with strong and narrowband loss

Jing Wang; Zhaohong Han; Yuhao Guo; Lionel C. Kimerling; Jurgen Michel; Anuradha M. Agarwal; Guifang Li; Lin Zhang

doi:doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000552

Photonics Research, 2017, 5 (6): 06000552, Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

Robust generation of frequency combs in a microresonator with strong and narrowband loss Download： 507次

Jing Wang ^1,2Zhaohong Han ³Yuhao Guo ^1,2Lionel C. Kimerling ³Jurgen Michel ³Anuradha M. Agarwal ³Guifang Li ^1,2,4Lin Zhang ^1,2,*

Author Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

² Key Laboratory of Integrated Opto-Electronic Technologies and Devices in Tianjin, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

³ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

⁴ College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL and FPCE, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA

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Jing Wang, Zhaohong Han, Yuhao Guo, Lionel C. Kimerling, Jurgen Michel, Anuradha M. Agarwal, Guifang Li, Lin Zhang. Robust generation of frequency combs in a microresonator with strong and narrowband loss[J]. Photonics Research, 2017, 5(6): 06000552.

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