• DocumentCode
    3688160
  • Title

    Demonstration of integrated mid-IR Kerr frequency combs

  • Author

    Anatoliy A. Savchenkov;Vladimir. S. Ilchenko;Fabio Di Teodoro;Paul M. Belden;William T. Lotshaw;Andrey B. Matsko;Lute Maleki

  • Author_Institution
    OEwaves Inc., 465 N. Halstead Street, Suite 140, Pasadena, California 91107, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    378
  • Lastpage
    379
  • Abstract
    We report on generation of Kerr frequency combs centered at 4.55μm in high quality factor (Q) CaF2 whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators pumped with quantum cascade lasers. A broad frequency comb is demonstrated when several mW of pumping light are coupled to a CaF2 WGM resonator characterized with Q > 107.
  • Keywords
    "Optical resonators","Assembly","Detectors","Optical pumping"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
  • ISSN
    1092-8081
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323602
  • Filename
    7323602