2016/03/31 by Chaitanya Joshi, Jae K. Jang, Kevin Luke +6 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/ol.41.002565
5 pages, 6 figures
arxiv created 2016/04/21 · arxiv updated 2016/05/26
We report the first demonstration of thermally controlled soliton modelocked frequency comb generation in microresonators. By controlling the electric current through heaters integrated with silicon nitride microresonators, we demonstrate a systematic and repeatable pathway to single- and multi-soliton modelocked states without adjusting the pump laser wavelength. Such an approach could greatly simplify the generation of modelocked frequency combs and facilitate applications such as chip-based dual-comb spectroscopy.