Generation from continuous waves of frequency combs with large overall bandwidth and tunable central wavelength

Benoît Barviau (1) , Christophe Finot (1) , Julien Fatome (2) , Guy Millot (1)

1 ICB - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne
2 SLCO

It is experimentally shown that the combined effects of Raman soliton self-frequency shift with either compression of a sinusoidal beating or modulation instability leads to the generation of frequency combs with a spectral width higher than 100 nm and a central frequency shifted towards higher wavelengths.

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]

Benoît Barviau, Christophe Finot, Julien Fatome, Guy Millot. Generation from continuous waves of frequency combs with large overall bandwidth and tunable central wavelength. Electronics Letters, 2007, 43 (16), pp.886-887. ⟨10.1049/el:20071608⟩. ⟨hal-00406175⟩