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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
