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Optical frequency synthesis using a dual-Kerr-microresonator frequency comb

Briles, T. C.
Drake, T. E.
Spencer, D. T.
Stone, J. R.
Fredrick, C. ORCID icon
Li, Q.
Westly, D. A.
Ilic, R.
Yi, X. ORCID icon
Yang, K. ORCID icon
Vahala, K. ORCID icon
Srinivasan, K.
Diddams, S. A. ORCID icon
Papp, S. B.

Abstract

We report a photonic-chip optical-frequency synthesizer using interlocking 1 THz and 22 GHz Kerr microcombs, which provide f-2f self-referencing and a dense comb spanning the C-band, respectively. We demonstrate the optical synthesizer with Hz resolution.

Additional Information

© 2017 IEEE. We thank D. C. Cole, D. D. Hickstein, and A.S. Kowligy for helpful discussions and experimental assistance.

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