Second-harmonic-assisted four-wave mixing in chip-based microresonator frequency comb generation

Xiaoxiao Xue; François Leo; Yi Xuan; Jose A Jaramillo-Villegas; Pei-Hsun Wang; Daniel E Leaird; Miro Erkintalo; Minghao Qi; Andrew M Weiner

doi:10.1038/lsa.2016.253

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Second-harmonic-assisted four-wave mixing in chip-based microresonator frequency comb generation

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- Second-harmonic-assisted four-wave mixing in chip-based microresonator frequency comb generation
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 6, Issue 2, (2017)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  2.School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, 465 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2035, USA
  3.The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
  4.OPERA-photonics, Université libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), 50 Avenue F. D. Roosevelt, CP 194/5, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium
  5.Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, 1205 West State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
  6.Facultad de Ingenierías, Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Pereira RIS 660003, Colombia
- Author bio：
  
  X Xue, Email: xuexx@tsinghua.edu.cn or xiaoxxue@gmail.com
  AM Weiner, Email: amw@purdue.edu
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- DOI：10.1038/lsa.2016.253
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- Published：2017-06，
  
  Published Online：13 November 2016，
  
  Received：11 August 2016，
  
  Revised：01 November 2016，
  
  Accepted：11 November 2016
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Xue, X. X. et al. Second-harmonic-assisted four-wave mixing in chip-based microresonator frequency comb generation. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16253 (2017).
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Xue, X. X. et al. Second-harmonic-assisted four-wave mixing in chip-based microresonator frequency comb generation. Light: Science & Applications, 6, e16253 (2017). DOI： 10.1038/lsa.2016.253.

摘要

Abstract

Simultaneous Kerr comb formation and second-harmonic generation with on-chip microresonators can greatly facilitate comb self-referencing for optical clocks and frequency metrology. Moreover

the presence of both second- and third-order nonlinearities results in complex cavity dynamics that is of high scientific interest but is still far from being well-understood. Here

we demonstrate that the interaction between the fundamental and the second-harmonic waves can provide an entirely new way of phase matching for four-wave mixing in optical microresonators

enabling the generation of optical frequency combs in the normal dispersion regime under conditions where comb creation is ordinarily prohibited. We derive new coupled time-domain mean-field equations and obtain simulation results showing good qualitative agreement with our experimental observations. Our findings provide a novel way of overcoming the dispersion limit for simultaneous Kerr comb formation and second-harmonic generation

which might prove to be especially important in the near-visible to visible range where several atomic transitions commonly used for the stabilization of optical clocks are located and where the large normal material dispersion is likely to dominate.

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Keywords

four-wave mixingKerr frequency combmicroresonatorsecond-harmonic generation

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