Optical frequency comb significantly spanned to broadband by an optomechanical resonance

Xin Gu; Jinlian Zhang; Shulin Ding; Xiaoshun Jiang; Bing He; Qing Lin

doi:10.1364/PRJ.525432

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 9, 1981(2024)

Optical frequency comb significantly spanned to broadband by an optomechanical resonance

Xin Gu¹, Jinlian Zhang¹, Shulin Ding², Xiaoshun Jiang², Bing He^3,4、*, and Qing Lin^1,5、*

¹Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Light Propagation and Transformation, College of Information Science and Engineering, Huaqiao University, Xiamen 361021, China

²National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China

³Multidisciplinary Center for Physics, Universidad Mayor, Camino La Pirámide 5750, Huechuraba, RM, Chile

⁴e-mail: bing.he@umayor.cl

⁵e-mail: qlin@hqu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Optical Devices

Received: Apr. 4, 2024

Accepted: Jun. 11, 2024

Published Online: Aug. 28, 2024

The Author Email: Bing He (bing.he@umayor.cl), Qing Lin (qlin@hqu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.525432

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.525432

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