Phase-locked, chip-based, cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering

Thomas F.S. Büttner; Moritz Merklein; Irina V. Kabakova; Darren D. Hudson; Duk Yong Choi; Barry Luther-Davies; Stephen J. Madden; Benjamin J. Eggleton

doi:10.1364/OPTICA.1.000311

Phase-locked, chip-based, cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering

Thomas F.S. Büttner^*, Moritz Merklein, Irina V. Kabakova, Darren D. Hudson, Duk Yong Choi, Barry Luther-Davies, Stephen J. Madden, Benjamin J. Eggleton

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Abstract

Compact optical frequency comb sources with gigahertz repetition rates are desirable for a number of important applications including arbitrary optical waveform generation and direct comb spectroscopy. We report the generation of phase-locked, gigahertz repetition rate optical frequency combs in a chalcogenide photonic chip. The combs are formed via the interplay of stimulated Brillouin scattering and Kerr-nonlinear four-wave mixing in an on-chip Fabry–Perot waveguide resonator incorporating a Bragg grating. Phase-locking of the comb is confirmed with real-time measurements, and a chirp of the comb repetition rate within the pump pulse was observed. These results represent a significant step towards the realization of integrated optical frequency comb sources with gigahertz repetition rates.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	311-314
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optica
Volume	1
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.1.000311
Publication status	Published - 2014

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Phase-locked, chip-based, cascaded stimulated Brillouin scattering

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