Packaged photonic chip-based soliton microcomb using an ultralow-noise laser

Photonic chip-based soliton microcombs have shown rapid progress and have already been used in many system-level applications, including coherent communications, astrophysical spectrometer calibration and ultrafast ranging. While there has been substantial progress in realizing soliton microcombs th...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2019-06
Main Authors: Raja, Arslan S, Liu, Junqiu, Volet, Nicolas, Rui Ning Wang, He, Jijun, Lucas, Erwan, Bouchand, Romain, Morton, Paul, Bowers, John, Kippenberg, Tobias J
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Communications systems
Diodes
Lasers
Photonics
Semiconductor lasers
Semiconductors
Viability
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Summary:Photonic chip-based soliton microcombs have shown rapid progress and have already been used in many system-level applications, including coherent communications, astrophysical spectrometer calibration and ultrafast ranging. While there has been substantial progress in realizing soliton microcombs that rely on compact laser diodes, culminating in devices that only utilize a semiconductor amplifier or a self-injection-locked laser as a pump source, accessing and generating single soliton states with electronically detectable line rates from a compact laser module has remained challenging. Here we demonstrate a current-initiated, \(\mathrm{Si_3N_4}\) chip-based, 99-GHz soliton microcomb driven directly by an ultra-compact, low-noise laser. This approach does not require any fast laser tuning mechanism, and single soliton states can be accessed by changing the current of the laser diode. A simple, yet reliable, packaging technique has been developed to demonstrate the viability of such a microcomb system in field-deployable applications.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1906.03194