Ultrafast modelocked nonlinear micro-cavity laser

Abstract

Ultrashort pulsed lasers, operating through the phenomenon of mode-locking, have played a significant role in many facets of our society for 50 years, for example in the way we exchange information, measure and diagnose diseases, process materials and in many other applications. The ability to phase-lock the modes of the high-quality resonators recently exploited to demonstrate optical combs, would allow mode-locked lasers to benefit from their high optical spectral quality in order to realize novel sources such as precision optical clocks for applications to metrology, telecommunications, microchip-computing, and many other areas. We demonstrate the first mode-locked laser based on a micro-cavity resonator. It operates via a new mode-locking method we termed Filter-Driven (FD) Four-Wave-Mixing, and is based on a CMOS-compatible high quality factor micro-ring resonator. It achieves stable self-starting oscillation with negligible amplitude noise at ultrahigh repetition rates, and spectral linewidths well below 130 kHz.

16 pages, 32 references, 5 figures

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