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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…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-20 A. A. Savchenkov , A. B. Matsko , W. Liang , V. S. Ilchenko , D. Seidel , L. Maleki

We report on experimental and theoretical demonstration of an optical comb spectrum based on a combination of cascaded stimulated Raman scattering and four-wave mixing mediated by Raman-induced nonresonant Kerr-type nonlinearity. This…

We generate a 200-nm optical frequency comb at 1.5 microns by injecting two single-frequency lasers into a highly nonlinear fiber, and explore its spectral phase properties and high power to demonstrate full nonlinear conversion into its…

Optical frequency combs (OFCs), consisting of a set of phase locked equally spaced laser frequency lines, have enabled a great leap in precision spectroscopy and metrology since seminal works of H\"ansch et al. . Nowadays, OFCs are…

We consider a high-Q microresonator with $\chi^{(2)}$ nonlinearity under conditions when the coupling rates between the sidebands around the pump and second harmonic exceed the damping rates, implying the strong coupling regime (SC). Using…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-31 D. V. Skryabin , V. V. Pankratov , A. Villois , D. N. Puzyrev

High-Q microresonator has been suggested a promising platform for optical frequency comb generation, via dissipative soliton formation. To achieve a higher Q and obtain the necessary anomalous dispersion, $Si_3N_4$ microresonators made of…

Optics · Physics 2016-02-03 S. -W. Huang , H. Liu , J. Yang , M. Yu , D. -L. Kwong , C. W. Wong

Light states relevant to the $\chi^{(2)}$ comb generation in optical microresonators possess typically dual backgrounds for coupled first-harmonic (FH) and second-harmonic (SH) envelopes. Stability and/or instability of these backgrounds is…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-23 Boris Sturman , Evgeny Podivilov , Jan Szabados , Ingo Breunig

An optical microresonator, which parameters are periodically modulated in time, can generate optical frequency comb (OFC) spectral resonances equally spaced by the modulation frequency. Significant recent progress in realization of OFC…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-19 M. Sumetsky

We report the first observation of low power drive level sensitivity, hyperparametric amplification, and single-mode hyperparametric oscillations in a dielectric rutile whispering-gallery mode resonator at 4.2 K. The latter gives rise to a…

Optical parametric oscillation (OPO) using the third-order nonlinearity ($\chi^{(3)}$) in integrated photonics platforms is an emerging approach for coherent light generation, and has shown great promise in achieving broad spectral coverage…

We demonstrated broadband highly efficient optical nonlinear processes in on-chip integrated lithium niobate (LN) microdisk resonators. The Q factors of the micro-resonators fabricated by femtosecond laser writing and chemo-mechanical…

We present a versatile mid-infrared frequency comb spectroscopy system based on a doubly resonant optical parametric oscillator tunable in the 3-5.4 {\mu}m range and two detection methods, a Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS) and a…

Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy provides a way to study structures and dynamics of complicated molecules in condensed phases. Therefore, developing compact and broadband mid-IR spectrometer has been a long-standing challenge. Here, we…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-16 Noh Soo Han , JunWoo Kim , Tai Hyun Yoon , Minhaeng Cho

Frequency combs represent exceptionally precise measurement tools due to the coherence of their spectral lines. While optical frequency comb sources constitute a well-established technology, superconducting circuits provide a relatively…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-12 Angelo Greco , Xavier Ballu , Francesco Giazotto , Alessandro Crippa

Optical frequency combs are crucial for both fundamental science and applications demanding wide frequency spanning and ultra-precision resolutions. Recent advancements of nonlinear Kerr effect based optical frequency combs in microcavities…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-13 Yuanlin Zheng , Tian Qin , Jianfan Yang , Xianfeng Chen , Li Ge , Wenjie Wan

Optical frequency combs [1-8] have resulted in significant advances in optical frequency metrology and found wide application to precise physical measurements [1-4, 9] and molecular fingerprinting [8]. A direct analogue of frequency combs…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2017-01-25 Adarsh Ganesan , Cuong Do , Ashwin A. Seshia

Using aluminum-nitride photonic-chip waveguides, we generate optical-frequency-comb supercontinuum spanning from 500 nm to 4000 nm with a 0.8 nJ seed pulse, and show that the spectrum can be tailored by changing the waveguide geometry.…

Microresonator-based frequency combs (microcombs or Kerr-combs) can potentially miniaturize the numerous applications of conventional frequency combs. A priority is the realization of broad-band (ideally octave spanning) spectra at…

Optics · Physics 2012-12-11 Jiang Li , Hansuek Lee , Tong Chen , Kerry J. Vahala

Photonic chip-based frequency combs have emerged as a transformative platform, enabling compact, scalable, and high-performance multiwavelength sources with far-reaching impact across science and technology. Most commonly, these sources…

We theoretically study the generation of optical frequency combs and corresponding pulse trains in doubly resonant intracavity second-harmonic generation (SHG). We find that, despite the large temporal walk-off characteristic of realistic…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-27 F. Leo , T. Hansson , I. Ricciardi , M. De Rosa , S. Coen , S. Wabnitz , M. Erkintalo