New CMOS-compatible platforms based on silicon nitride and Hydex for nonlinear optics

Raman Self-Frequency Shift of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in an Optical Microresonator

“…Recently, a qualitatively new operation regime has been discovered [6], in which the parametrically generated comb seeds the formation of a temporal dissipative (cavity) soliton [7][8][9]. Such temporal dissipative solitons, first externally induced in fiber cavities [10], have been observed in Kerr frequency comb experiments using crystalline microresonators [6,11] and have recently also been generated in photonic chip based silicon nitride (SiN) integrated resonators [5,12]. Soliton based microresonator frequency combs have several attractive features, in particular being fully coherent, having smooth envelopes and giving access to femtosecond pulses.…”

“…-Microresonator based optical frequency combs (Kerr combs) [1,2] enable optical frequency comb generation from a continuous wave (CW) laser, with repetition rates in the microwave domain (>10 GHz), and broad spectral bandwidth [3][4][5]. Recently, a qualitatively new operation regime has been discovered [6], in which the parametrically generated comb seeds the formation of a temporal dissipative (cavity) soliton [7][8][9].…”

Nonlinear optical interactions in silicon waveguides

“…Hence, waves with only three distinct optical frequencies are involved in the [14] 11.5 0.233 0 Silica fiber [10] 2.7 10 −3 0…”

“…There have been several demonstrations of nonlinear experiments in silicon nitride integrated waveguides and hydex waveguides [14]. Most notably, frequency comb generation [27][28][29][30][31].…”

“…A multitude of linear and nonlinear functions in silicon nitride [14] have been demonstrated. However, most of these, such as supercontinuum generation [24] and comb generation [29,31], have focused on the telecom wavelength band.…”