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InP integrated optical frequency comb generator using an amplified recirculating loop

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dc.affiliation.dptoUC3M. Departamento de Tecnología Electrónicaes
dc.affiliation.grupoinvUC3M. Grupo de Investigación: Optoelectrónica y Tecnología Láser (GOTL)es
dc.contributor.authorTough, Euan J.
dc.contributor.authorFice, Martyn J.
dc.contributor.authorCarpintero del Barrio, Guillermo
dc.contributor.authorRenaud, Cyril C.
dc.contributor.authorSeeds, Alwyn J.
dc.contributor.authorBalakier, Katarzyna
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-02T14:11:04Z
dc.date.available2023-06-02T14:11:04Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-09
dc.description.abstractA novel realisation of photonically integrated optical frequency comb generation is demonstrated on indium phosphide (InP) using a generic foundry platform. The architecture, based on the amplified recirculating loop technique, consists of cascaded electro-optic phase modulators embedded within a short waveguide loop. While an injected continuous wave laser signal is recirculated by the loop, the modulators are driven with a modulation frequency corresponding to the round-trip loop length frequency. This results in many phase coherent, evenly spaced optical comb lines being generated. The choice of InP as an integration platform allows immediate optical amplification of the modulated signal by embedded semiconductor optical amplifiers, enabling loop losses to be compensated and expanding the comb across broad optical bandwidths. This approach reduces the requirement for external, high-power optical amplifiers, improving the compactness and power efficiency of the full system. The system was modelled to identify off-resonance behaviour, outlining limits in matching both the modulation frequency and seed laser frequency to the round-trip loop frequency for optimal comb line generation to be achieved. The experimental device occupied a fraction of the 6 x 2 mm2 InP chip and operated at round-trip loop frequencies of 6.71 GHz to produce 59 comb lines within a 20 dB power envelope. All comb lines exhibited strong phase coherence as characterised by low composite phase noise measurements of -105 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz. A second device is also presented with a shorter loop length operating at ~10 GHz which generated 57 comb lines. Both loop configurations included short waveguide phase shifters providing a degree of tunability of the free spectral range with a tuning range of 150 MHz for small injection currents of less than 2.5 mA.en
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research work has been supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Integrated Photonics and Electronic Systems (IPES) Centre of Doctoral Training and PICSat project (EPSRC Reference: EP/S000976/1).en
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dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationTough, E.J.,et al. InP integrated optical frequency comb generator using an amplified recirculating loop, In: Opt. Express 2022, 30(24), 14p.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1364/OE.469942
dc.identifier.issn1094-4087
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage43195es
dc.identifier.publicationissue24es
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage43208es
dc.identifier.publicationtitleOptics Expressen
dc.identifier.publicationvolume30
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10016/37419
dc.identifier.uxxiAR/0000031847
dc.language.isoenges
dc.publisherOptica Publishing Groupen
dc.rightsPublished by Optica Publishing Group under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.en
dc.rightsJournal © 2022en
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsopen accessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subject.ecienciaElectrónicaes
dc.subject.otherMode-locked laseres
dc.subject.otherGHZen
dc.subject.otherOptical frequency comb generatorsen
dc.subject.otherAmplified recirculating loopen
dc.subject.otherOptical engineeringen
dc.subject.otherSpectroscopyen
dc.titleInP integrated optical frequency comb generator using an amplified recirculating loopen
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