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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ruhnke:605327,
author = {Ruhnke, Bastian and Mahmoud, Gafaar and Wildi, Thibault and
Ludwig, Markus and Ulanov, Alexander and Voumard, Thibault
and Wang, Kai and Sinobad, Milan and Lorenzen, Jan and
Francis, Henry and Carreira, Jose and Singh, Neetesh Kumar
and Kärtner, Franz and Garcia-Blanco, Sonia M. and Herr,
Tobias},
title = {{I}ncreasing {K}err-comb efficiency through pump recycling
in a chip-integrated gain medium},
school = {Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY},
reportid = {PUBDB-2024-01414},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Continuous-wave (CW) laser-driven integrated Kerr
microresonators enable broadband optical frequency combs
with high repetition rates and low threshold power, in a
compact footprint. A drawback of such microcombs is the low
conversion efficiency from the pump laser to the comb lines,
which is often in the few percent range or below. Here,
complementing previously demonstrated approaches to increase
conversion efficiency, we demonstrate a novel approach that
leverages a chip-based rare-earth (Tm3+)-doped optical gain
medium to boost the pump-to-comb conversion efficiency by
more than one order of magnitude. Importantly, the gain
medium does not require an additional pump laser, but
recycles residual pump light from the Kerr-comb: the CW pump
of the Kerr-comb (1610 nm) coincides with the pump
wavelength of the on-chip gain medium, allowing unconverted
pump power to be absorbed and transferred to the comb lines
within gain window (1700 - 1900 nm). This enables a new
class of highly efficient Kerr-combs for applications e.g.
in data centers and optical computing.},
month = {Apr},
date = {2024-04-07},
organization = {SPIE Photonics Europe, Strasbourg
(France), 7 Apr 2024 - 11 Apr 2024},
subtyp = {Other},
cin = {FS-CFEL-2-UMP},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)FS-CFEL-2-UMP-20201209},
pnm = {899 - ohne Topic (POF4-899) / FEMTOCHIP - FEMTOSECOND LASER
ON A CHIP (965124) / STARCHIP - Microphotonics-based
frequency combs for habitable exoplanet detection (853564) /
VH-NG-1404 - Ultra-fast nonlinear microphotonics
$(G:(DE-HGF)2019_VH-NG-1404)$},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-899 / G:(EU-Grant)965124 /
G:(EU-Grant)853564 / $G:(DE-HGF)2019_VH-NG-1404$},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)CFEL-Exp-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)6},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/605327},
}