Numerical simulation and temporal characterization of dual-pumped microring-resonator-based optical frequency combs

Xiaohong Hu; Weiqiang Wang; Leiran Wang; Wenfu Zhang; Yishan Wang; Wei Zhao

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000207

Photonics Research, Volume. 5, Issue 3, 207(2017)

Numerical simulation and temporal characterization of dual-pumped microring-resonator-based optical frequency combs

Xiaohong Hu^1,2, Weiqiang Wang^1,2,3, Leiran Wang^1,2, Wenfu Zhang^1,2,3,4、*, Yishan Wang^1,5、*, and Wei Zhao¹

¹State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Xi’an 710119, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³China-UK Joint Research Center on Micro/Nano Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Science, Xi’an 710119, China

⁴e-mail: wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn

⁵e-mail: Yshwang@opt.ac.cn

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Category: Nonlinear Optics

Received: Feb. 10, 2017

Accepted: Mar. 22, 2017

Published Online: Oct. 9, 2018

The Author Email: Wenfu Zhang (wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn), Yishan Wang (Yshwang@opt.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.5.000207

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