Optical frequency comb generation from aluminum nitride micro-ring resonator
Optics
2013-07-26 v1
Abstract
Aluminum nitride is an appealing nonlinear optical material for on-chip wavelength conversion. Here we report optical frequency comb generation from high quality factor aluminum nitride micro-ring resonators integrated on silicon substrates. By engineering the waveguide structure to achieve near-zero dispersion at telecommunication wavelengths and optimizing the phase matching for four-wave mixing, frequency combs are generated with a single wavelength continuous-wave pump laser. The Kerr coefficient (n2) of aluminum nitride is further extracted from our experimental results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.6761,
title = {Optical frequency comb generation from aluminum nitride micro-ring resonator},
author = {Hojoong Jung and Chi Xiong and King Y. Fong and Xufeng Zhang and Hong X. Tang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.6761},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures