• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 2, Issue 4, 046001 (2020)
Jianhao Zhang1、*, Vincent Pelgrin1, Carlos Alonso-Ramos1, Laurent Vivien1, Sailing He2, and Eric Cassan1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre de Nanosciences et de Nanotechnologies, Palaiseau, France
  • 2Zhejiang University, Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, State Key Laboratory for Modern Optical Instrumentation, Hangzhou, China
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    Jianhao Zhang, Vincent Pelgrin, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Laurent Vivien, Sailing He, Eric Cassan. Stretching the spectra of Kerr frequency combs with self-adaptive boundary silicon waveguides[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(4): 046001 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Dispersion engineering of optical waveguides is among the most important steps in enabling the realization of Kerr optical frequency combs. A recurring problem is the limited bandwidth in which the nonlinear phase matching condition is satisfied, due to the dispersion of the waveguide. This limitation is particularly stringent in high-index-contrast technologies such as silicon-on-insulator. We propose a general approach to stretch the bandwidth of Kerr frequency combs based on subwavelength engineering of single-mode waveguides with self-adaptive boundaries. The wideband flattened dispersion operation comes from the particular property of the waveguide optical mode that automatically self-adapts its spatial profile at different wavelengths to slightly different effective spatial spans determined by its effective index values. This flattened dispersion relies on the squeezing of small normal-dispersion regions between two anomalous spectral zones, which enables it to achieve two Cherenkov radiation points and substantially broaden the comb, achieving a bandwidth between 2.2 and 3.4 μm wavelength. This strategy opens up a design space for trimming the spectra of Kerr frequency combs using high-index-contrast platforms and can provide benefits to various nonlinear applications in which the manipulation of energy spacing and phase matching are pivotal.
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    Jianhao Zhang, Vincent Pelgrin, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Laurent Vivien, Sailing He, Eric Cassan. Stretching the spectra of Kerr frequency combs with self-adaptive boundary silicon waveguides[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2020, 2(4): 046001
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