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Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration

Liu, Junqiu  
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Raja, Arslan S.  
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Karpov, Maxim  
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October 20, 2018
Optica

The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators has provided a route to compact frequency combs of high repetition rate, which have already been employed for optical frequency synthesizers, ultrafast ranging, coherent telecommunication, and dual-comb spectroscopy. Silicon nitride (Si3N4) microresonators are promising for photonic integrated soliton microcombs. Yet to date, soliton formation in Si3N4 microresonators at electronically detectable repetition rates, typically less than 100 GHz, is hindered by the requirement of external power amplifiers, due to the low quality (Q) factors, as well as by thermal effects that necessitate the use of frequency agile lasers to aces the soliton state. These requirements complicate future photonic integration, heterogeneous or hybrid, of soliton microcomb devices based on Si3N4 microresonators with other active or passive components. Here, using the photonic Damascene reflow process, we demonstrate ultralow-power single-soliton formation in high- Q (Q(0) > 15 x 10(6))Si3N4 microresonators with 9.8 mW input power (6.2 mW in the waveguide) for devices of electronically detectable, 99-GHz repetition rate. We show that solitons can be accessed via simple, slow laser piezo tuning, in many resonances in the same sample. These power levels are compatible with current silicon-photonics-based lasers for full photonic integration of soliton microcombs, at repetition rates suitable for applications such as ultrafast ranging and coherent communication. Our results show the technological readiness of Si3N4 optical waveguides for future all-on-chip soliton microcomb devices. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement

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research article
DOI
10.1364/OPTICA.5.001347
Web of Science ID

WOS:000447853100027

Author(s)
Liu, Junqiu  
Raja, Arslan S.  
Karpov, Maxim  
Ghadiani, Bahareh  
Pfeiffer, Martin H. P.  
Du, Botao
Engelsen, Nils J.  
Guo, Hairun  
Zervas, Michael  
Kippenberg, Tobias J.  
Date Issued

2018-10-20

Publisher

OPTICAL SOC AMER

Published in
Optica
Volume

5

Issue

10

Start page

1347

End page

1353

Subjects

Optics

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Optics

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silicon-nitride microresonators

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frequency comb generation

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ring-resonator

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wave-guides

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dispersion

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spectroscopy

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radiation

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optics

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plasma

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