Pasquazi, Alessia, Peccianti, Marco, Moss, David J, Chu, Sai Tac, Little, Brent E and Morandotti, Roberto (2016) Harmonic laser mode-locking based on nonlinear microresonators. In: Grelu, Philippe (ed.) Nonlinear optical cavity dynamics: from microresonators to fiber lasers. Wiley, pp. 213-230. ISBN 9783527413324

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Abstract

We summarize here our recent results on high-repetition-rate laser mode-locking via microring resonators. The recent realization of multiple wavelength oscillators based on high Q-factor resonators has profoundly impacted optical frequency combs for metrology and precision measurements and other areas. The ability to mode-lock these devices is important for achieving high-precision optical clocks in a monolithic format, offering enormous benefits in performance, cost, size, and power consumption for optical waveform synthesis, high-capacity telecommunications, optical analog-to-digital conversion, and many other applications. Here, we demonstrated a mode-locked laser based on a monolithic high Q resonator. This device produces stable, self-starting transform-limited optical pulses at 200.3 GHz, with a sub-100 kHz linewidth and extremely narrow amplitude noise bandwidth of <1 Hz. Stable operation of two slightly shifted spectral optical comb replicas, generating a highly monochromatic radiofrequency modulation with a linewidth of <10 kHz is also observed.

Item Type:	Book Section
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics > QC0350 Optics. Light
Depositing User:	Alessia Pasquazi
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2016 13:56
Last Modified:	29 Sep 2016 13:56
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/63711

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