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Compact sub-Hz Linewidth Laser Enabled by Self Injection Lock To a Sub-mL FP Cavity
Wei Liang, Yunfeng liu
Narrow linewidth laser(NLL) of high frequency stability and small form factor is essential to enable applications in long range sensing, quantum information and atomic clocks. Vari…
Automated turnkey microcomb for low-noise microwave synthesis
Kunpeng Jia, Xinwei Yi, Xiaohan Wang +6
Microresonator-based optical frequency comb (microcomb) has the potential to revolutionize the accuracy of frequency synthesizer in radar and communication applications. However, f…
Probing 10 μK stability and residual drifts in the cross-polarized dual-mode stabilization of single-crystal ultrahigh-Q optical resonators
Jinkang Lim, Wei Liang, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov +3
The thermal stability of monolithic optical microresonators is essential for many mesoscopic photonic applications such as ultrastable laser oscillators, photonic microwave clocks,…
Chasing the thermodynamical noise limit in whispering-gallery-mode resonators for ultrastable laser frequency stabilization
Jinkang Lim, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Elijah Dale +6
Ultrastable high-spectral-purity lasers have served as the cornerstone behind optical atomic clocks, quantum measurements, precision optical-microwave generation, high resolution o…
Compact Stabilized Semiconductor Laser for Frequency Metrology
W. Liang, V. S. Ilchenko, D. Eliyahu +5
We report on the development of a frequency modulatable 795 nm semiconductor laser based on self-injection locking to a high quality factor whispering gallery mode microresonator.…
Generation of a coherent near-infrared Kerr frequency comb in a monolithic microresonator with normal GVD
Wei Liang, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Vladimir S. Ilchenko +4
We demonstrate experimentally, and explain theoretically, generation of a wide, fundamentally phase locked Kerr frequency comb in a nonlinear resonator with a normal group velocity…
Spectrally Pure RF Photonic Source Based on a Resonant Optical Hyper-Parametric Oscillator
W. Liang, D. Eliyahu, A. B. Matsko +3
We demonstrate a free running 10GHz microresonator-based RF photonic hyper-parametric oscillator characterized with phase noise better than -60dBc/Hz at 10Hz, -90dBc/Hz at 100Hz, a…
On phase noise of self-injection locked semiconductor lasers
E. Dale, W. Liang, D. Eliyahu +5
We discuss our recent progress in iimproving the phase noise of a semiconductor laser using self-injection locking of to a mode of a high-Q whispering gallery mode resonator. Locki…
Miniature Optical Atomic Clock: Stabilization of a Kerr Comb Oscillator
A. A. Savchenkov, D. Eliyahu, W. Liang +5
Mechanical clocks consist of a pendulum and a clockwork that translates the pendulum period to displayed time. The most advanced clocks utilize optical transitions in atoms in plac…
Chaotic dynamics of frequency combs generated with continuously pumped nonlinear microresonators
Andrey B. Matsko, Wei Liang, Anatoliy A. Savchenkov +1
We theoretically and experimentally investigate the chaotic regime of optical frequency combs generated in nonlinear ring microresonators pumped with continuous wave light. We show…
Optical Kerr Frequency Comb Generation in Overmoded Resonators
A. B. Matsko, A. A. Savchenkov, W. Liang +3
We show that scattering-based interaction among nearly degenerate optical modes is the key factor in low threshold generation of Kerr frequency combs in nonlinear optical resonator…
Transient Regime of Kerr Frequency Comb Formation
Anatoliy A. Savchenkov, Andrey B. Matsko, Wei Liang +3
Temporal growth of an optical Kerr frequency comb generated in a microresonator is studied both experimentally and numerically. We find that the comb emerges from vacuum fluctuatio…
Universal Optical Frequency Comb
A. A. Savchenkov, A. B. Matsko, W. Liang +3
We demonstrate that whispering gallery mode resonators can be utilized to generate optical frequency combs based on four wave mixing process at virtually any frequency that lies in…
Whispering gallery mode resonator based ultra-narrow linewidth external cavity semiconductor laser
W. Liang, V. S. Ilchenko, A. A. Savchenkov +3
We demonstrate a miniature self-injection locked DFB laser using resonant optical feedback from a high-Q crystalline whispering gallery mode resonator. The linewidth reduction fact…
Passively mode locked Raman laser
W. Liang, V. S. Ilchenko, A. A. Savchenkov +3
We report on the observation of a novel mode locked optical comb generated at the Raman offset (Raman comb) in an optically pumped crystalline whispering gallery mode resonator. Mo…