Probing coherence in microcavity frequency combs via optical pulse shaping

Published

August 29, 2012

Author(s)

Fahmida Ferdous, Houxun H. Miao, Pei-Hsun Wang, Daniel E. Leaird, Kartik Srinivasan, Lei Chen, Vladimir Aksyuk, Andrew M. Weiner

Abstract

Recent investigations of microcavity frequency combs based on cascaded four-wave mixing have revealed a link between the evolution of the optical spectrum and the observed temporal coherence. Here we study a silicon nitride microresonator for which the initial four-wave mixing sidebands are spaced by multiple free spectral ranges (FSRs) from the pump, then fill in to yield a comb with single FSR spacing, resulting in partial coherence. By using a pulse shaper to select and manipulate the phase of various subsets of spectral lines, we are able to probe the structure of the coherence within the partially coherent comb. Our data demonstrate strong variation in the degree of mutual coherence between different groups of lines and provide support for a simple model of partially coherent comb formation.

Citation

Optics Express

Volume

20

Issue

19

Pub Type

Journals

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Keywords

Pulse shaping, Ultrafast measurements, Micro-optical devices, Ultrafast nonlinear optics, Optical frequency comb

Citation

Ferdous, F. , Miao, H. , Wang, P. , Leaird, D. , Srinivasan, K. , Chen, L. , Aksyuk, V. and Weiner, A. (2012), Probing coherence in microcavity frequency combs via optical pulse shaping, Optics Express, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=911692 (Accessed October 7, 2025)