Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Phase and coherence of optical microresonator frequency combs

Published

Author(s)

William Loh, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams

Abstract

We investigate the phase and coherence properties of microresonator combs using a combination of theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and experimental measurement. Our analysis reveals that the comb phase in many cases does not stabilize to an orderly arrangement across the spectrum. Our results are supported by numerical simulations of two different microresonator combs operated under varying conditions of input drive, dispersion, and detuning. These results are also experimentally confirmed through phase measurements of the individual comb lines. As a second point of study, we also investigate the processes leading to the breakdown of the equidistant frequency spacing of the modes in a microresonator comb
Citation
Physical Review A
Volume
89

Keywords

Four-Wave Mixing, Microcavity Devices, Nonlinear Optics, Optical Frequency Combs

Citation

Loh, W. , Del'Haye, P. , Papp, S. and Diddams, S. (2014), Phase and coherence of optical microresonator frequency combs, Physical Review A, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=915304 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created May 9, 2014, Updated February 19, 2017