• DocumentCode
    1648867
  • Title

    Spectrally flat, broadband visible-wavelength astro-comb

  • Author

    Chang, Guoqing ; Li, Chih-Hao ; Glenday, Alexander ; Furesz, Gabor ; Langellier, Nicholas ; Chen, Li-Jin ; Webber, Matthew W. ; Lim, Jinkang ; Chen, Hung-Wen ; Phillips, David F. ; Szentgyorgyi, Andrew ; Walsworth, Ronald L. ; Kärtner, Franz X.

  • Author_Institution
    Res. Lab. of Electron., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Cambridge, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate a broadband visible-wavelength astro-comb enabled by two key technologies: dispersion-managed, fiber-optic Cherenkov radiation for green-to-red source-comb generation and complementary chirped-mirror pairs for constructing broadband Fabry-Perot filtering cavities.
  • Keywords
    Cherenkov radiation; chirp modulation; laser cavity resonators; laser mirrors; optical fibre dispersion; optical fibre filters; optical frequency conversion; broadband Fabry-Perot filtering cavities; complementary chirped-mirror pairs; dispersion-managed fiber-optic Cherenkov radiation; green-to-red source-comb generation; spectrally flat broadband visible-wavelength astro-comb; Bandwidth; Broadband communication; Cavity resonators; Dispersion; Green products; Optical filters; Optimized production technology;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325479