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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 29: Laserentwicklung: Nichtlineare Effekte 1
Q 29.1: Talk
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 10:30–10:45, SCH 251
Frequency Comb Generation in Crystalline Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonators — •Tobias Herr1, Christine Wang2, Pascal Del'Haye2, Klaus Hartinger3, Ronald Holzwarth3, and Tobias Kippenberg1,2 — 1École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland — 2Max-Planck-Instiut für Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany — 3Menlo Systems GmbH, Am Klopferspitz 19a, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany
We experimentally demonstrate frequency comb generation via four-wave mixing in ultra high-Q crystalline MgF2 whispering-gallery mode resonators. More than 800 comb lines with spacing of 43 GHz are observed, while the resonator is thermally self-locked to a 700mW continuous wave pump laser at 1556 nm. Cross-correlation measurements reveal well separated pulses in the time-domain output at the comb repetition rate.