Title :
Silicon-chip mid-infrared frequency comb generation
Author :
Griffith, Austin G. ; Lau, Ryan K. W. ; Cardenas, Jamie ; Okawachi, Yoshitomo ; Mohanty, Aseema ; Poitras, Carl B. ; Gaeta, Alexander L. ; Lipson, Michal
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We report the first on-chip integrated mid-infrared frequency comb using a silicon optical parametric oscillator ring resonator. We demonstrate a 750-nm-wide comb centered at 2.6 um.
Keywords :
elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; optical frequency combs; optical parametric oscillators; optical resonators; silicon; PIN junctions; Si; linear losses; nonlinear losses; on-chip integrated mid-infrared frequencγ comb; silicon etchless waveguides; silicon optical parametric oscillator ring resonator; silicon-chip mid-infrared frequency comb generation; wavelength 2.6 mum; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical losses; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Oscillators; Silicon;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
