Everything about Kerr frequency comb
Optical frequency combs
Kerr frequency combs are optical frequency combs which are generated from a continuous wave pump laser by the Kerr nonlinearity. This coherent conversion of the pump laser to a frequency comb takes place inside an optical resonator which is typically of micrometer to millimeter in size and is therefore termed a microresonator. The coherent generation of the frequency comb from a continuous wave laser with the optical nonlinearity as a gain sets Kerr frequency combs apart from today's most common optical frequency combs. These frequency combs are generated by mode-locked lasers where the dominating gain stems from a conventional laser gain medium, which is pumped incoherently. Because Kerr frequency combs only rely on the nonlinear properties of the medium inside the microresonator and do not require a broadband laser gain medium, broad Kerr frequency combs can in principle be generated around any pump frequency. Wikipedia →
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High spectral purity Kerr frequency comb radio frequency photonic oscillator
Monolithic lithium niobate photonic circuits for Kerr frequency comb generation and modulation
Dispersion engineering and measurement of whispering gallery mode microresonator for Kerr frequency comb generation
Nonlinear conversion efficiency in Kerr frequency comb generation
Self-referenced photonic chip soliton Kerr frequency comb
Broadband RF Channelizer Based on an Integrated Optical Frequency Kerr Comb Source
Kerr frequency comb generation in overmoded resonators
Direct Kerr frequency comb atomic spectroscopy and stabilization
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Nonlinear dynamics and Kerr frequency comb formation in lattices of coupled microresonators
Loss-induced enhancement of Kerr nonlinearity and optical-frequency-comb generation in a non-Hermitian cavity-QED system
Brillouin-induced Kerr frequency comb in normal dispersion fiber Fabry Perot resonators
Cascaded stimulated Brillouin laser and Brillouin-Kerr optical frequency comb in high-Q MgF 2 disk resonators
Broadband Kerr frequency comb in fiber Fabry-Perot resonators induced by switching waves
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- 📕Highly Parallel Silicon Photonic Links with Integrated Kerr Frequency CombsAnthony Rizzo · 2022
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