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A mechanically tuned Kerr comb in a dispersion-engineered silica microbubble resonator

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This paper discusses the developement and investigation of a silica microbubble resonator (MBR) that is optimized to cancel mode dispersion with material dispersion, at a wavelength of approximately 1550 nm and maintain a quality factor of an optical mode as large as 5.4 × 107. Benefitting from the near-zero dispersion and high quality factor, a primary optical comb is generated in the MBR using cascaded four-wave mixing processes, which span over 300 nm with several tens of teeth. Furthermore, the frequency comb could be gradually tuned by mechanically stretching the MBR. This tunable Kerr comb has multiple potential applications in precision measurements and sensing applications, such as molecular spectroscopy and ranging.

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  1. Department of Physics, Shangqiu Normal University, Shangqiu, 476000, China

    FangJie Shu

  2. CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    PeiJi Zhang, YanJun Qian, ZhengYu Wang, Shuai Wan, ChangLing Zou, GuangCan Guo & ChunHua Dong

  3. CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China

    PeiJi Zhang, YanJun Qian, ZhengYu Wang, Shuai Wan, ChangLing Zou, GuangCan Guo & ChunHua Dong

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This work was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (Grant No. 2016YFA0301303), the Anhui Initiative in Quantum Information Technologies (Grant No. AHY130200), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11934012, 61575184, and 11722436), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, and the Key Science and Technology Program of Henan Province, China (Grant No. 182102410070). This work was partially carried out at the USTC Center for Micro and Nanoscale Research and Fabrication.

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Shu, F., Zhang, P., Qian, Y. et al. A mechanically tuned Kerr comb in a dispersion-engineered silica microbubble resonator. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 63, 254211 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-019-1464-8

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