Optical bistability in Mid-Infrared High Quality Factor Silicon-Germanium Resonators

Marko Perestjuk, Rémi Armand, Sandoval Campos, Miguel, Gerardo, Ujjal Chettri, Lamine Ferhat, Jean‐Michel Hartmann, Vincent Mathieu, Guanghui Ren, Andreas Boes, Arnan Mitchell, N. Bresson, Vincent Reboud, Christelle Monat, Christian Grillet

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Abstract

We report Optical bistability in high-Q Silicon Germanium (SiGe) Ring Resonators in the Mid-Infrared (MIR) wavelength range between 3.5-4.6 μm. We numerically show that the high Q factor in combination with the observed nonlinearities is sufficient to generate soliton-based frequency comb.

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