Robust generation of frequency combs in a microresonator with strong and narrowband loss

Jing Wang; Zhaohong Han; Yuhao Guo; Lionel C. Kimerling; Jurgen Michel; Anuradha M. Agarwal; Guifang Li; Lin Zhang

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000552

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 6, 552(2017)

Robust generation of frequency combs in a microresonator with strong and narrowband loss

Jing Wang^1,2, Zhaohong Han³, Yuhao Guo^1,2, Lionel C. Kimerling³, Jurgen Michel³, Anuradha M. Agarwal³, Guifang Li^1,2,4, and Lin Zhang^1,2、*

Author Affiliations

¹Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronic Information Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

²Key Laboratory of Integrated Opto-Electronic Technologies and Devices in Tianjin, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China

³Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

⁴College of Optics and Photonics, CREOL and FPCE, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA

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Paper Information

Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Jul. 17, 2017

Accepted: Aug. 21, 2017

Published Online: Dec. 7, 2017

The Author Email: Lin Zhang (lin_zhang@tju.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000552

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