Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator
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...Optical microcavities[20] are owing to their long temporal and small spatial light confinement ideally suited for nonlinear frequency conversion, which has led to a dramatic improvement in the threshold of nonlinear optical light conversion[21]....
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...This is intrinsically the case in a whispering gallery type microcavity[20] since the optical modes are angular momentum eigenstates and have (discrete) propagation constants βm = m R resulting from the periodic boundary condition, where the integer m designates the mode number and R denotes the cavity radius....
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...Optical frequency combs[1, 2, 3] provide equidistant frequency markers in the infrared, visible and ultra-violet[4, 5] and can link an unknown optical frequency to a radio or microwave frequency reference[6, 7]....
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...comb-like mode structure of mode-locked lasers, whose repetition rate and carrier envelope phase can be stabilized[12]....
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...2 % (The highest observed conversion efficiency was 83 % by working in the over-coupled regime[13])....
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...We employ ultra-high-Q monolithic microresonators in the form of silica toroidal microcavities[13] on a silicon chip, which possess giant photon storage times (τ) i....
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...Here, we report an entirely novel approach in which equally spaced frequency markers are generated from a continuous wave (CW) pump laser of a known frequency interacting with the modes of a monolithic high-Q microresonator[13] via the Kerr nonlinearity[14, 15]....
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