• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 6, Issue 5, 363 (2018)
Weiqiang Wang1、2、5、*, Wenfu Zhang1、6、*, Zhizhou Lu1、2, Sai T. Chu3, Brent E. Little1, Qinghua Yang4, Lei Wang1, and Wei Zhao1
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xi’an 710119, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 3Department of Physics and Materials Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 4School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China
  • 5e-mail: wwq@opt.ac.cn
  • 6e-mail: wfuzhang@opt.ac.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.6.000363 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Weiqiang Wang, Wenfu Zhang, Zhizhou Lu, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, Qinghua Yang, Lei Wang, Wei Zhao. Self-locked orthogonal polarized dual comb in a microresonator[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(5): 363 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Dual combs are an emerging tool to obtain unprecedented resolution, high sensitivity, ultrahigh accuracy, broad bandwidth, and ultrafast data updating rate in the fields of molecular spectroscopy, optical metrology, as well as optical frequency synthesis. The recent progress in chip-based microcombs has promoted the on-chip dual-comb measuring systems to a new phase attributed to the large frequency spacing and broad spectrum. In this paper, we demonstrate proof-of-concept dual-comb generation with orthogonal polarization in a single microresonator through pumping both the transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) modes simultaneously. The two orthogonal polarized pumps are self-oscillating in a fiber ring cavity. The generated dual comb exhibits excellent stability due to the intrinsic feedback mechanism of the self-locked scheme. The repetition rate of the two orthogonal combs is slightly different because of the mode spacing difference between the TE and TM modes. Such orthogonal polarized dual-combs could be a new comb source for out-of-lab applications in the fields of integrated spectroscopy, ranging measurement, optical frequency synthesis, and microwave comb generation.
    ωμ=ω0+D1μ+12D2μ2+16D3μ3+,(1)

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    Weiqiang Wang, Wenfu Zhang, Zhizhou Lu, Sai T. Chu, Brent E. Little, Qinghua Yang, Lei Wang, Wei Zhao. Self-locked orthogonal polarized dual comb in a microresonator[J]. Photonics Research, 2018, 6(5): 363
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