Nonlinear photonics with high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonators

G Lin, A Coillet, YK Chembo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-and ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode resonators have the capability to trap
photons by total internal reflection for a duration ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds …

Three‐wave mixing in whispering gallery resonators

I Breunig - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We review the progress in the development of frequency converters based on three‐wave
mixing in whispering gallery resonators (WGRs). The theoretical description, given in a …

Nonlinear and quantum optics with whispering gallery resonators

DV Strekalov, C Marquardt, AB Matsko… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical whispering gallery modes (WGMs) derive their name from a famous acoustic
phenomenon of guiding a wave by a curved boundary observed nearly a century ago. This …

On-chip χ(2) microring optical parametric oscillator

AW Bruch, X Liu, JB Surya, CL Zou, HX Tang - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) have been widely used for decades as tunable, narrow-
linewidth, and coherent light sources for reaching long wavelengths and are attractive for …

Cascaded second-order optical nonlinearities in on-chip micro rings

R Wolf, I Breunig, H Zappe, K Buse - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate cascaded Stimulated Raman Scattering (SRS), Second-Harmonic
Generation (SHG), and Sum-Frequency Generation (SFG) in integrated on-chip whispering …

Quasi-phase-matched nonlinear optical frequency conversion in on-chip whispering galleries

R Wolf, Y Jia, S Bonaus, CS Werner, SJ Herr, I Breunig… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Chip-integrated whispering-gallery resonators (WGRs) enable compact and wavelength-
agile nonlinear optical frequency synthesizers. So far, the most flexible phase-matching …

On-chip optical parametric oscillation into the visible: generating red, orange, yellow, and green from a near-infrared pump

X Lu, G Moille, A Rao, DA Westly, K Srinivasan - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The on-chip generation of coherent, single-frequency laser light that can be tuned across the
visible spectrum would help enable a variety of applications in spectroscopy, metrology, and …

Miniature multioctave light source based on a monolithic microcavity

W Liang, AA Savchenkov, Z Xie, JF McMillan… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Optical microresonators are ideal tools for the reduction of the threshold of optical parametric
oscillation based on four-wave mixing. Usually, the efficiency and bandwidth of the resonant …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient chip-based optical parametric oscillators from 590 to 1150 nm

JR Stone, X Lu, G Moille, K Srinivasan - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Optical parametric oscillators are widely used to generate coherent light at frequencies not
accessible by conventional laser gain. However, chip-based parametric oscillators operating …

Frequency-comb formation in doubly resonant second-harmonic generation

F Leo, T Hansson, I Ricciardi, M De Rosa, S Coen… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We theoretically study the generation of optical frequency combs and corresponding pulse
trains in doubly resonant intracavity second-harmonic generation (SHG). We find that …