Self-referenced photonic chip soliton Kerr frequency comb

Victor Brasch; Erwan Lucas; John D Jost; Michael Geiselmann; Tobias J Kippenberg

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.202

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Self-referenced photonic chip soliton Kerr frequency comb

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- Self-referenced photonic chip soliton Kerr frequency comb
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 1, (2017)
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  École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – IPHYS, Lausanne CH-1015, Switzerland
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  TJ Kippenberg, Email: tobias.kippenberg@epfl.ch
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.202
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- Published：2017-03，
  
  Published Online：19 August 2016，
  
  Received：11 May 2016，
  
  Revised：13 August 2016，
  
  Accepted：17 August 2016
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Brasch, V. et al. Self-referenced photonic chip soliton Kerr frequency comb. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16202 (2017).
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Brasch, V. et al. Self-referenced photonic chip soliton Kerr frequency comb. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16202 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.202.

摘要

Abstract

Self-referencing turns

pulsed laser systems into self-referenced frequency combs. Such frequency combs allow counting of optical frequencies and have a wide range of applications. The required optical bandwidth to implement self-referencing is typically obtained via nonlinear broadening in optical fibers. Recent advances in the field of Kerr frequency combs have provided a path toward the development of compact frequency comb sources that provide broadband frequency combs

exhibit microwave repetition rates and are compatible with on-chip photonic integration. These devices have the potential to significantly expand the use of frequency combs. Yet to date

self-referencing of such Kerr frequency combs has only been attained by applying conventional

fiber-based broadening techniques. Here we demonstrate external broadening-free self-referencing of a Kerr frequency comb. An optical spectrum spanning two-thirds of an octave is directly synthesized from a continuous wave laser-driven silicon nitride microresonator using temporal dissipative Kerr soliton formation and soliton Cherenkov radiation. Using this coherent bandwidth and two continuous wave transfer lasers in a 2

f–

self-referencing scheme

we are able to detect the offset frequency of the soliton Kerr frequency comb. By stabilizing the repetition rate to a radio frequency reference

the self-referenced frequency comb is used to count and track the continuous wave pump laser's frequency. This work demonstrates the principal ability of soliton Kerr frequency combs to provide microwave-to-optical clockworks on a chip.

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Keywords

frequency combsintegrated opticsKerr frequency combsmetrologymicroresonator frequency combsnonlinear optics

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