• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 9, Issue 10, 2068 (2021)
Lucas Deniel1、*, Erwan Weckenmann2, Diego Pérez Galacho1、4, Christian Lafforgue1, Stéphane Monfray3, Carlos Alonso-Ramos1, Laurent Bramerie2, Frédéric Boeuf3, Laurent Viven1, and Delphine Marris-Morini1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Univ. Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, 91120 Palaiseau, France
  • 2Univ. Rennes, CNRS, FOTON-UMR 6082, F-22305 Lannion, France
  • 3ST Microelectronics, 850 rue Jean Monnet, 38920 Crolles, France
  • 4Current address: ITEAM Research Institute, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.431282 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Lucas Deniel, Erwan Weckenmann, Diego Pérez Galacho, Christian Lafforgue, Stéphane Monfray, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Laurent Bramerie, Frédéric Boeuf, Laurent Viven, Delphine Marris-Morini. Silicon photonics phase and intensity modulators for flat frequency comb generation[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(10): 2068 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Flat electro-optical frequency combs play an important role in a wide range of applications, such as metrology, spectroscopy, or microwave photonics. As a key technology for the integration of optical circuits, silicon photonics could benefit from on-chip, tunable, flat frequency comb generators. In this article, two different architectures based on silicon modulators are studied for this purpose. They rely on a time to frequency conversion principle to shape the comb envelope. Using a numerical model of the silicon traveling-wave phase modulators, their driving schemes are optimized before their performances are simulated and compared. A total of nine lines could be obtained within a 2 dB flatness, with a line-spacing ranging from 0.1 to 7 GHz. Since this tunability is a major asset of electro-optical frequency combs, the effect of segmenting the phase modulators is finally investigated, showing that the flat lines spacing could be extended up to 39 GHz by this method.
    νinst(t)=ν0m0fmsin(2πfmt).

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    T(t)=12{1±sin[π2cos(2πfmt)]}.

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    T(t)=12{1cos[2Δm0cos(2πfmt)±2Δm0]}.

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    T(t)=12{1±sin[π2cos(2πfmt)]}.

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    Lucas Deniel, Erwan Weckenmann, Diego Pérez Galacho, Christian Lafforgue, Stéphane Monfray, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Laurent Bramerie, Frédéric Boeuf, Laurent Viven, Delphine Marris-Morini. Silicon photonics phase and intensity modulators for flat frequency comb generation[J]. Photonics Research, 2021, 9(10): 2068
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