• DocumentCode
    474765
  • 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
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4572764