Kerr parametric oscillations and frequency comb generation from dispersion compensated silica micro-bubble resonators

Ming Li; Xiang Wu; Liying Liu; Lei Xu

doi:10.1364/OE.21.016908

Kerr parametric oscillations and frequency comb generation from dispersion compensated silica micro-bubble resonators

Opt Express. 2013 Jul 15;21(14):16908-13. doi: 10.1364/OE.21.016908.

Authors

Ming Li¹, Xiang Wu, Liying Liu, Lei Xu

Affiliation

¹ Key Lab for Micro and Nanophotonic Structures, Ministry of Education, Department of Optical Science and Engineering, School of Information Science and Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.

PMID: 23938539
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016908

Abstract

Silica micro-bubble resonators (MBRs) with cavity quality factor as high as Q = 5 × 10(7) are fabricated. The total dispersion of MBRs is analyzed. The thin-wall structure opens a new anomalous dispersion window and thus supports the dispersion compensation for hyper-parametric frequency conversion processes. Experimentally, Kerr parametric oscillation is observed in a 136 μm diameter MBR, frequency comb generation is also realized. Meanwhile the same nonlinear process is not allowed in solid silica spheres with size smaller than 150 μm.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Microbubbles*
Oscillometry / instrumentation*
Refractometry / instrumentation*
Silicon Dioxide / chemistry*
Surface Plasmon Resonance / instrumentation*
Transducers*

Substances

Silicon Dioxide