Conversion efficiency of soliton Kerr combs
Abstract
We investigate the conversion efficiency (CE) of soliton modelocked Kerr frequency combs. Our analysis reveals three distinct scaling regimes of CE with the cavity free spectral range (FSR), which depends on the relative contributions of the coupling and propagation loss to the total cavity loss. Our measurements, for the case of critical coupling, verify our theoretical prediction over a range of FSRs and pump powers. Our numerical simulations also indicate that mode crossings have an adverse effect on the achievable CE. Our results indicate that microresonator combs operating with spacings in the electronically detectable regime are highly inefficient, which could have implications for integrated Kerr comb devices.
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- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1810207
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- AR0000843
- Resource Type:
- Publisher's Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Optics Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Optics Letters Journal Volume: 46 Journal Issue: 15; Journal ID: ISSN 0146-9592
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Jang, Jae K., Okawachi, Yoshitomo, Zhao, Yun, Ji, Xingchen, Joshi, Chaitanya, Lipson, Michal, and Gaeta, Alexander L. Conversion efficiency of soliton Kerr combs. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1364/OL.423654.
Jang, Jae K., Okawachi, Yoshitomo, Zhao, Yun, Ji, Xingchen, Joshi, Chaitanya, Lipson, Michal, & Gaeta, Alexander L. Conversion efficiency of soliton Kerr combs. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.423654
Jang, Jae K., Okawachi, Yoshitomo, Zhao, Yun, Ji, Xingchen, Joshi, Chaitanya, Lipson, Michal, and Gaeta, Alexander L. Mon .
"Conversion efficiency of soliton Kerr combs". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.423654.
@article{osti_1810207,
title = {Conversion efficiency of soliton Kerr combs},
author = {Jang, Jae K. and Okawachi, Yoshitomo and Zhao, Yun and Ji, Xingchen and Joshi, Chaitanya and Lipson, Michal and Gaeta, Alexander L.},
abstractNote = {We investigate the conversion efficiency (CE) of soliton modelocked Kerr frequency combs. Our analysis reveals three distinct scaling regimes of CE with the cavity free spectral range (FSR), which depends on the relative contributions of the coupling and propagation loss to the total cavity loss. Our measurements, for the case of critical coupling, verify our theoretical prediction over a range of FSRs and pump powers. Our numerical simulations also indicate that mode crossings have an adverse effect on the achievable CE. Our results indicate that microresonator combs operating with spacings in the electronically detectable regime are highly inefficient, which could have implications for integrated Kerr comb devices.},
doi = {10.1364/OL.423654},
journal = {Optics Letters},
number = 15,
volume = 46,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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