Project

Chip Scale Electrically Powered Optical Frequency Combs

Acronym
ELECTRIC
Code
41G04518
Duration
01 February 2018 → 31 July 2023
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Principal investigator
Research disciplines
  • Engineering and technology
    • Photonics, light and lighting
Keywords
optical chips
Other information
 
Project description

I will build frequency combs integrated on optical chips that can be mass-manufactured with CMOS technology. Unlike the current chip scale Kerr comb based solutions, they do not need to be optically pumped with a powerful continuous wave laser and can have much narrower comb spacings. The challenge here is two-fold. First, we need to make electrically powered integrated low noise oscillators. Second, we need to lower the threshold of current on-chip nonlinear optical interactions by an order of magnitude to use them in on-chip OFC generators.

 
 
 
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