Title : 
All-optical photonic oscillator with high-Q whispering gallery mode resonators
         
        
            Author : 
Savchenkov, A.A. ; Matsko, A.B. ; Strekalov, D. ; Mohageg, M. ; Ilchenko, V.S. ; Maleki, L.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
We demonstrated low threshold optical photonic hyper-parametric oscillator in a high-Q (1010) CaF2 whispering gallery mode resonator which generates stable 8.5 GHz signal. The oscillations result from the resonantly enhanced four wave mixing occurring due to Kerr nonlinearity of the material.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Q-factor; calcium compounds; crystal symmetry; microwave generation; microwave photonics; multiwave mixing; optical Kerr effect; optical materials; optical parametric oscillators; optical resonators; whispering gallery modes; 8.5 GHz; CaF2; all-optical photonic oscillator; high-Q whispering gallery mode resonators; optical photonic hyper-parametric oscillator; resonantly enhanced four wave mixing; Crystallization; Frequency; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical resonators; Optical scattering; Oscillators; Whispering gallery modes;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Microwave Photonics, 2004. MWP'04. 2004 IEEE International Topical Meeting on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7803-8491-1
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/MWP.2004.1396875