Title :
Low dispersion silicon Slot waveguides for frequency comb generation with equally spaced spectral lines
Author :
Zhang, Lin ; Yue, Yang ; Xiao-Li, Yinying ; Beausoleil, Raymond G. ; Willner, Alan E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
A silicon slotted ring resonator with flattened dispersion in the cavity is proposed to produce uniform spectral lines in on-chip frequency comb generations. Standard deviation of the free spectral range is improved by 250 times as compared to a strip waveguide in the same size.
Keywords :
nonlinear optics; optical fibre dispersion; optical resonators; optical waveguides; equally spaced spectral lines; flattened dispersion; frequency comb generation; low dispersion silicon slot waveguides; silicon slotted ring resonator; Atom optics; Distributed power generation; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical pumping; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Silicon compounds; Strips; Integrated optics; dispersion and silicon photonics; nonlinear optics; waveguides;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
