Power-Efficient Kerr Frequency Comb Based Tunable Optical Source
We designed and demonstrated a power-efficient highly integrated photonic system, requiring a total power consumption of 1.7 W and producing a spectrally pure coherent optical signal with a wavelength range of 23 nm in the C-band. The system consists of a compact, low-power InP-based photonic integr...
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| author | S. Arafin A. Simsek S.-K. Kim W. Liang D. Eliyahu G. Morrison M. Mashanovitch A. Matsko L. Johansson L. Maleki M. J. Rodwell L. A. Coldren |
| author_facet | S. Arafin A. Simsek S.-K. Kim W. Liang D. Eliyahu G. Morrison M. Mashanovitch A. Matsko L. Johansson L. Maleki M. J. Rodwell L. A. Coldren |
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| description | We designed and demonstrated a power-efficient highly integrated photonic system, requiring a total power consumption of 1.7 W and producing a spectrally pure coherent optical signal with a wavelength range of 23 nm in the C-band. The system consists of a compact, low-power InP-based photonic integrated coherent receiver, microresonator-based Kerr frequency comb, and agile electronic circuits. The photonic coherent receiver contains a 60-nm widely tunable Y-branch local oscillator (LO) diode laser, a coupler, and a pair of photodetectors. It consumes record-low (approximately 184 mW) electrical power. The optical frequency comb reference has excellent spectral purity, <;4 kHz optical linewidth, and good frequency stability. The spectrally pure tunable optical source was produced by offset locking the on-chip LO laser of the integrated receiver to this frequency comb source. A possibility of further stabilization of the frequency comb repetition rate by locking to an external radio frequency synthesizer was demonstrated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-15329f43df834850bb16ed3f410df8ba2022-12-21T23:21:09ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552017-01-019311410.1109/JPHOT.2017.26968587908982Power-Efficient Kerr Frequency Comb Based Tunable Optical SourceS. Arafin0A. Simsek1S.-K. Kim2W. Liang3D. Eliyahu4G. Morrison5M. Mashanovitch6A. Matsko7L. Johansson8L. Maleki9M. J. Rodwell10L. A. Coldren11Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USAOEwaves Inc., Pasadena, CA, USAOEwaves Inc., Pasadena, CA, USAFreedom Photonics LLC, Goleta, CA, USAFreedom Photonics LLC, Goleta, CA, USAOEwaves Inc., Pasadena, CA, USAFreedom Photonics LLC, Goleta, CA, USAOEwaves Inc., Pasadena, CA, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USADepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USAWe designed and demonstrated a power-efficient highly integrated photonic system, requiring a total power consumption of 1.7 W and producing a spectrally pure coherent optical signal with a wavelength range of 23 nm in the C-band. The system consists of a compact, low-power InP-based photonic integrated coherent receiver, microresonator-based Kerr frequency comb, and agile electronic circuits. The photonic coherent receiver contains a 60-nm widely tunable Y-branch local oscillator (LO) diode laser, a coupler, and a pair of photodetectors. It consumes record-low (approximately 184 mW) electrical power. The optical frequency comb reference has excellent spectral purity, <;4 kHz optical linewidth, and good frequency stability. The spectrally pure tunable optical source was produced by offset locking the on-chip LO laser of the integrated receiver to this frequency comb source. A possibility of further stabilization of the frequency comb repetition rate by locking to an external radio frequency synthesizer was demonstrated.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7908982/Photonic integrated circuitsintegrated opticsoptical phase-locked loopheterodyneoptical frequency comboptical microresonator |
| spellingShingle | S. Arafin A. Simsek S.-K. Kim W. Liang D. Eliyahu G. Morrison M. Mashanovitch A. Matsko L. Johansson L. Maleki M. J. Rodwell L. A. Coldren Power-Efficient Kerr Frequency Comb Based Tunable Optical Source IEEE Photonics Journal Photonic integrated circuits integrated optics optical phase-locked loop heterodyne optical frequency comb optical microresonator |
| title | Power-Efficient Kerr Frequency Comb Based Tunable Optical Source |
| title_full | Power-Efficient Kerr Frequency Comb Based Tunable Optical Source |
| title_fullStr | Power-Efficient Kerr Frequency Comb Based Tunable Optical Source |
| title_full_unstemmed | Power-Efficient Kerr Frequency Comb Based Tunable Optical Source |
| title_short | Power-Efficient Kerr Frequency Comb Based Tunable Optical Source |
| title_sort | power efficient kerr frequency comb based tunable optical source |
| topic | Photonic integrated circuits integrated optics optical phase-locked loop heterodyne optical frequency comb optical microresonator |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7908982/ |
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