Title
Dispersion tailoring in wedge microcavities for Kerr comb generation
Date Issued
15 June 2020
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Fujii L.
Soares J.H.
Espinel Y.A.V.
Mayer Alegre T.P.
Wiederhecker G.S.
University of Campinas
Publisher(s)
OSA - The Optical Society
Abstract
The shaping of group velocity dispersion in microresonators is an important component in the generation of wideband optical frequency combs. Small resonators—with tight bending radii—offer the large free-spectral range desirable for wide comb formation. However, the tighter bending usually limits comb formation as it enhances normal group velocity dispersion. We experimentally demonstrate that engineering the sidewall angle of a small-radius (∼100 µm), 3-µm-thick silica wedge microdisk enables dispersion tuning in both normal and anomalous regimes, without significantly affecting the free spectral range. A microdisk with a wedge angle of 55◦ (anomalous dispersion) is used to demonstrate a 300 nm bandwidth Kerr optical frequency comb.
Start page
3232
End page
3235
Volume
45
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85086619566
PubMed ID
Source
Optics Letters
ISSN of the container
01469592
Sponsor(s)
We gratefully acknowledge the discussions with Professor N. A. Spaldin in Materials Theory of ETH Zürich, Dr. L. Wang in the Center for Correlated Electron Systems of Institute for Basic Science, and Dr. M. Kim from the Department of Physics, Rutgers University. The work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China through Contracts No. 2016YFA0302300, No. 2016YFA0300102, and No. 2017YFA0303602, the Basic Science Center Program of the NSFC under Grant No. 51788104, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grants No. 11974052, No. 11675179, No.11774360, and No. 11904373), the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. Z190008), and the CAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team. L.S. and K.H. were supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (Program No. FP/2007-2013) through ERC Grant No. 306447 and by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through Project No. P 30997. L.S. was also funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2019M662122). Beam time from APS 33BM and SSRF 14B and the 3315 Program of Ningbo are appreciated. Calculations have been performed on the Supercomputing Center at NIMTE CAS and Vienna Scientific Clusters (VSC). Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2012/17610-3, 2012/17765-7, 2016/05038-4, 2018/15577-5, 2018/15580-6, 2018/21311-8, 2018/25339-4); Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (Finance Code 001); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico; Financiadora deEstudoseProjetos. A. Von Zuben for his support in the microfabrication; CCSNano and LAMULT for providing the microfabricationinfrastructure.
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