Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom

LG Wright, WH Renninger, DN Christodoulides… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The overall goal of photonics research is to understand and control light in new and richer
ways to facilitate new and richer applications. Many major developments to this end have …

Ultra-wideband integrated photonic devices on silicon platform: from visible to mid-IR

X Guo, X Ji, B Yao, T Tan, A Chu, O Westreich… - …, 2023 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics has gained great success mainly due to the promise of realizing compact
devices in high volume through the low-cost foundry model. It is burgeoning from laboratory …

Self-locked optical parametric oscillation in a CMOS compatible microring resonator: a route to robust optical frequency comb generation on a chip

A Pasquazi, L Caspani, M Peccianti, M Clerici… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We report a novel geometry for OPOs based on nonlinear microcavity resonators. This
approach relies on a self-locked scheme that enables OPO emission without the need for …

Investigation of mode coupling in normal-dispersion silicon nitride microresonators for Kerr frequency comb generation

Y Liu, Y Xuan, X Xue, PH Wang, S Chen, AJ Metcalf… - optica, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Kerr frequency combs generated from microresonators are the subject of intense study for
potential applications ranging from short pulse generation to frequency metrology to …

Mode-locked ultrashort pulse generation from on-chip normal dispersion microresonators

SW Huang, H Zhou, J Yang, JF McMillan, A Matsko… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
We describe generation of stable mode-locked pulse trains from on-chip normal dispersion
microresonators. The excitation of hyperparametric oscillation is facilitated by the local …

Intracavity characterization of micro-comb generation in the single-soliton regime

PH Wang, JA Jaramillo-Villegas, Y Xuan, X Xue… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Soliton formation in on-chip micro-comb generation balances cavity dispersion and
nonlinearity and allows coherent, low-noise comb operation. We study the intracavity …

Self-injection locking and phase-locked states in microresonator-based optical frequency combs

P Del'Haye, K Beha, SB Papp, SA Diddams - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Microresonator-based optical frequency combs have been a topic of extensive research
during the last few years. Several theoretical models for the comb generation have been …

Kerr frequency comb generation in overmoded resonators

AA Savchenkov, AB Matsko, W Liang, VS Ilchenko… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We show that scattering-based interaction among nearly degenerate optical modes is the
key factor in low threshold generation of Kerr frequency combs in nonlinear optical …

Generation of a coherent near-infrared Kerr frequency comb in a monolithic microresonator with normal GVD

W Liang, AA Savchenkov, VS Ilchenko, D Eliyahu… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate experimentally, and describe theoretically, generation of a wide,
fundamentally phase-locked Kerr frequency comb in a nonlinear resonator with a normal …

Supercontinuum-based 10-GHz flat-topped optical frequency comb generation

R Wu, V Torres-Company, DE Leaird, AM Weiner - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
The generation of high-repetition-rate optical frequency combs with an ultra-broad, coherent
and smooth spectrum is important for many applications in optical communications, radio …