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CMOS-compatible integrated optical hyper-parametric oscillator
Luca Razzari,Luca Razzari,David Duchesne,Marcello Ferrera,Roberto Morandotti,Sai T. Chu,Brent E. Little,David J. Moss,David J. Moss +8 more
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In this article, a fully integrated, CMOS-compatible, multiple-wavelength source with high differential slope efficiency at only a few tens of milliwatts of continuous-wave power is presented.Abstract:
Integrated multiple-wavelength laser sources, critical for important applications such as high-precision broadband sensing and spectroscopy1, molecular fingerprinting2, optical clocks3 and attosecond physics4, have recently been demonstrated in silica and single-crystal microtoroid resonators using parametric gain2,5,6. However, for applications in telecommunications7 and optical interconnects8, analogous devices compatible with a fully integrated platform9 do not yet exist. Here, we report a fully integrated, CMOS-compatible, multiple-wavelength source. We achieve optical ‘hyper-parametric’ oscillation in a high-index silica-glass microring resonator10 with a differential slope efficiency above threshold of 7.4% for a single oscillating mode, a continuous-wave threshold power as low as 54 mW, and a controllable range of frequency spacing from 200 GHz to more than 6 THz. The low loss, design flexibility and CMOS compatibility of this device will enable the creation of multiple-wavelength sources for telecommunications, computing, sensing, metrology and other areas. Through optical ‘hyper-parametric’ oscillation in a high-index silica glass microring resonator, scientists demonstrate a fully integrated CMOS-compatible low-loss multiple-wavelength source that has high differential slope efficiency at only a few tens of milliwatts of continuous-wave power. The achievement has significant implications for telecommunications and on-chip optical interconnects in computers.read more
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Microresonator-Based Optical Frequency Combs
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Efficient self-phase modulation in low loss, high index doped silica glass integrated waveguides
David Duchesne,Marcello Ferrera,Luca Razzari,Roberto Morandotti,Brent E. Little,Sai T. Chu,David J. Moss +6 more
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Interconnects: Wiring electronics with light
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TL;DR: As data rates continue to spiral upwards, electrical interconnects based on copper traces and wires are struggling to keep up and optical solutions are looking increasingly attractive.
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Low power four wave mixing in an integrated, micro-ring resonator with Q=1.2 million
Marcello Ferrera,David Duchesne,Luca Razzari,Marco Peccianti,Roberto Morandotti,Pavel Cheben,Siegfried Janz,Dan-Xia Xu,Brent E. Little,Sai T. Chu,David J. Moss +10 more
TL;DR: Efficient, low power, continuous-wave four-wave mixing in the C-band is demonstrated using a high index doped silica glass micro ring resonator having a Q-factor of 1.2 million, and theoretically that the characteristic low dispersion enables phase-matching over a tuning range > 160 nm.