Optical-Frequency Measurements with a Kerr Microcomb and Photonic-Chip Supercontinuum

Erin S. Lamb, David R. Carlson, Daniel D. Hickstein, Jordan R. Stone, Scott A. Diddams, and Scott B. Papp
Phys. Rev. Applied 9, 024030 – Published 27 February 2018

Abstract

Dissipative solitons formed in Kerr microresonators may enable chip-scale frequency combs for precision optical metrology. Here, we explore the creation of an octave-spanning, 15-GHz repetition-rate microcomb suitable for both f2f self-referencing and optical-frequency comparisons across the near infrared. This is achieved through a simple and reliable approach to deterministically generate, and subsequently frequency stabilize, soliton pulse trains in a silica-disk resonator. Efficient silicon-nitride waveguides provide a supercontinuum spanning 700 to 2100 nm, enabling both offset-frequency stabilization and optical-frequency measurements with >100nW per mode. We demonstrate the stabilized comb by performing a microcomb-mediated comparison of two ultrastable optical-reference cavities.

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  • Received 2 November 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.9.024030

© 2018 American Physical Society

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Atomic, Molecular & OpticalNonlinear Dynamics

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Erin S. Lamb1,*, David R. Carlson1, Daniel D. Hickstein1, Jordan R. Stone1,2, Scott A. Diddams1,2, and Scott B. Papp1,2

  • 1Time and Frequency Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, USA
  • 2Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA

  • *ecs223@cornell.edu

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