Universal Optical Frequency Comb
Optics
2010-09-20 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate that whispering gallery mode resonators can be utilized to generate optical frequency combs based on four wave mixing process at virtually any frequency that lies in the transparency window of the resonator host material. We show theoretically how the morphology of the resonator can be engineered to produce a family of spectrally equidistant modes with anomalous group velocity dispersion appropriate for the comb generation. We present experimental results for a frequency comb centered at 794 nm to support our theoretical findings.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.3286,
title = {Universal Optical Frequency Comb},
author = {A. A. Savchenkov and A. B. Matsko and W. Liang and V. S. Ilchenko and D. Seidel and L. Maleki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3286},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures