• 文献标题:   Theoretical analysis of a mid-infrared Kerr frequency comb in a graphene-on-silicon micro-resonator
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHEN WC, HE Q, GUO RX, WAN D, HAN Q, HU HF, WANG JQ, ZOU Y, XIAO TH, LIU TG, CHENG ZZ
  • 作者关键词:   integrated optic, nonlinear optic, kerr frequency comb, graphene, silicon photonic
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA SCRIPTA
  • ISSN:   0031-8949 EI 1402-4896
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1088/1402-4896/acd5bb
  • 出版年:   2023

▎ 摘  要

Mid-infrared (Mid-IR) Kerr frequency combs have great application potential in sensing and spectroscopy. To generate a Kerr frequency comb, a continuous-wave, wavelength-tunable, narrow-linewidth, low-noise laser is normally utilized to pump a high-nonlinearity micro-resonator to emit a large number of coherent and equally spaced modes. However, chip-based pump lasers in the mid-IR band, namely, quantum cascade lasers and interband cascade lasers, are usually challenging to develop with both high output powers and good wavelength tunability based on a single diode. To overcome the limitation, we theoretically study a mid-IR Kerr frequency comb generation technique based on a graphene-on-silicon micro-resonator by using a monochromatic mid-IR laser. The approach is based on the exploration of an electric-field-assisted resonance scanning technique and graphene-enhanced silicon Kerr nonlinearity. Our result shows that a soliton Kerr frequency comb with a spectral range of 3.23-5.26 mu m, 3-dB bandwidth of similar to 550 nm, and frequency spacing of 140 GHz could be generated under a pump wavelength of 4 mu m. The study paves a promising way toward developing monolithically chip-integrated mid-IR Kerr frequency combs with cost efficiencies and ultrafast tuning speeds.