High parametric efficiency in laser cavity-soliton microcombs

作者:Cutrona, Antonio; Rowley, Maxwell; Das, Debayan; Olivieri, Luana; Peters, Luke; Chu, Sai T.; Little, Brent E.; Morandotti, Roberto; Moss, David J.; Gongora, Juan Sebastian Totero; Peccianti, Marco; Pasquazi, Alessia*
来源:Optics Express, 2022, 30(22): 39816-39825.
DOI:10.1364/OE.470376

摘要

Laser cavity-soliton microcombs are robust optical pulsed sources, usually im-plemented with a microresonator-filtered fibre laser. In such a configuration, a nonlinear microcavity converts the narrowband pulse resulting from bandwidth-limited amplification to a background-free broadband microcomb. Here, we theoretically and experimentally study the soliton conversion efficiency between the narrowband input pulse and the two outputs of a four-port integrated microcavity, namely the 'Drop' and 'Through' ports. We simultaneously measure on-chip, single-soliton conversion efficiencies of 45% and 25% for the two broadband comb outputs at the 'Drop' and 'Through' ports of a 48.9 GHz free-spectral range micro-ring resonator, obtaining a total conversion efficiency of 72%.

  • 单位
    1; 中国科学院