Title :
Broadband cascaded four-wave mixing in high-Q silica microspheres
Author :
Agha, Imad H. ; Okawachi, Yoshitomo ; Gaeta, Alexander L.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY
Abstract :
We demonstrate broadband, continuous-wave cascaded four-wave mixing parametric oscillation in the anomalous dispersion regime of a high-Q silica microsphere with an overall bandwidth greater than 100 nm and spectral features smaller than 10 MHz.
Keywords :
multiwave mixing; optical parametric oscillators; silicon compounds; Broadband cascaded four-wave mixing; high-Q silica microspheres; parametric oscillation; Bandwidth; Four-wave mixing; Frequency; Microcavities; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical pumping; Signal processing; Silicon compounds; Stimulated emission; (190.3970) Microparticle nonlinear optics; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-859-9
