Title :
Tailoring of a broader and flatter frequency comb using a microring resonator with a low-index slot
Author :
Changjing Bao ; Lin Zhang ; Yan Yan ; Hao Huang ; Guodong Xie ; Agarwal, Anuradha Murthy ; Kimerling, Lionel C. ; Michel, J. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A dispersion-flattened microresonator based on slot waveguide exhibits great performance improvement of Kerr frequency combs by engineering the 2nd-order dispersion amount and anomalous-dispersion bandwidth with all-order dispersion taken into account.
Keywords :
micro-optics; optical Kerr effect; optical dispersion; optical frequency combs; optical resonators; optical waveguides; 2nd-order dispersion; Kerr frequency combs; all-order dispersion; anomalous-dispersion bandwidth; broader frequency comb; dispersion-flattened microresonator; flatter frequency comb; low-index slot; microring resonator; performance improvement; slot waveguide; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Dispersion; Optical resonators; Optical waveguides; Resonant frequency; Strips;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
