Competition between Raman and Kerr effects in microresonator comb generation
Yoshitomo Okawachi, Mengjie Yu, Vivek Venkataraman, Pawel M. Latawiec, Austin G. Griffith, Michal Lipson, Marko Lončar, and Alexander L. Gaeta
Index: 10.1364/OL.42.002786
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Abstract
We investigate the effects of Raman and Kerr gain in crystalline microresonators and determine the conditions required to generate mode-locked frequency combs. We show theoretically that a strong, narrowband Raman gain determines a maximum microresonator size allowable to achieve comb formation. We verify this condition experimentally in diamond and silicon microresonators and show that there exists a competition between Raman and Kerr effects that leads to the existence of two different comb states.