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Generation of an optical frequency comb in the green with silicon nitride microresonators

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Chipscale soliton microcombs

Optical frequency combs provide equidistant frequency markers and have applications that encompass fundamental Physics to Engineering. This tutorial will review the fundamental operational principles and latest development in the field of soliton microreso ...

IEEE2019

Broadband Efficient Soliton Microcombs in Pulse-Driven Photonic Microresonators

Sylvain Karlen, Tobias Kippenberg, Tobias Herr, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson

Broadband single-soliton based frequency combs, with a detectable repetition rate of 28 GHz, are efficiently generated through pulse-driving of a chip-based Si3N4 microresonator. We observe an influence of the pulse-driving rate on the comb mode linewidth. ...

IEEE2019

Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

Tobias Kippenberg

Recent developments in chip-based nonlinear photonics offer the tantalizing prospect of realizing many applications that can use optical frequency comb devices that have form factors smaller than 1 cm(3) and that require less than 1 W of power. A key featu ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

An optical-frequency synthesizer using integrated photonics

Nicolas Volet, Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer

Optical-frequency synthesizers, which generate frequency-stable light from a single microwave-frequency reference, are revolutionizing ultrafast science and metrology, but their size, power requirement and cost need to be reduced if they are to be more wid ...

2018

From the Lugiato-Lefever equation to microresonator-based soliton Kerr frequency combs

Tobias Kippenberg

The model, that is usually called the Lugiato-Lefever equation (LLE), was introduced in 1987 with the aim of providing a paradigm for dissipative structure and pattern formation in nonlinear optics. This model, describing a driven, detuned and damped nonli ...

ROYAL SOC2018

Spatial multiplexing of soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Maxim Karpov, Arslan Sajid Raja

Dual-comb interferometry utilizes two optical frequency combs to map the optical field's spectrum to a radio-frequency signal without using moving parts, allowing improved speed and accuracy. However, the method is compounded by the complexity and demandin ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Semiconductor laser chip stabilization by Si3N4 microresonator and Kerr comb generation

Tobias Kippenberg, Mirjam Pfeiffer, Andrey Voloshin

The experimental study of the InPlaser diode stabilization by high-Q Si3N4 microresonator is presented. We demonstrate how this stabilized laser diode considered as a pump laser may be used for optical frequency comb generation in the same microresonator. ...

IEEE2018

Frequency Comb Stabilization of Ultrafast Lasers by Opto-Optical Modulation of Semiconductors

Sargis Hakobyan

In this paper, we review the current state and discuss new developments in opto-optical modulation (OOM) of semiconductor elements for frequency comb self-referenced stabilization of ultrafast lasers. This method has been successfully used for carrier-enve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Experimental Investigation of the Effect of EDFA-Generated ASE Noise added to the Pump of a Kerr Frequency Comb

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Fatemeh Alishahi, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Ahmad Fallahpour, Lin Zhang

We experimentally investigate the effect of EDFA-induced pump ASE noise on cavity-soliton Kerr combs for 64-QAM transmission. We find that all comb optical carrier-to-noise ratios (OCNRs) are similar with a fixed pump OCNR and comb linewidths almost remain ...

Ieee2017

Chip-Scale Frequency Comb Generators for High-Speed Communications and Optical Metrology

Tobias Kippenberg, Victor Brasch, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov

Chip-scale frequency comb sources are key elements for a variety of applications, comprising massively parallel optical communications and high-precision optical metrology. In this talk, we give an overview on our recent progress in the area of integrated ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2017

Dependence of a microresonator Kerr frequency comb on the pump linewidth

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Amirhossein Mohajerin Ariaei, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Lin Zhang

We experimentally investigate the dependence of Kerr comb generation, comb linewidth, and coherent system performance on the pump linewidth in a microresonator. We find that the generation of the primary comb can have a larger tolerance to the pump linewid ...

Optical Society of America2017

Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

Tobias Kippenberg, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Victor Brasch, Arne Kordts, Maxim Karpov, Miles Henry Anderson

Solitons are waveforms that preserve their shape while propagating, as a result of a balance of dispersion and nonlinearity(1,2). Soliton-based data transmission schemes were investigated in the 1980s and showed promise as a way of overcoming the limitatio ...

Nature Publishing Group2017