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FY2025

Presentation Details:

Optical signal processing is expected to eliminate bottlenecks faced by existing electrical processing, such as signal bandwidth, power consumption, and delay time. In optical signal processing, processing is performed by adjusting the frequency, amplitude, phase, and time-delay parameters of an optical signal. Currently, optical signal processing is dominated by circuits for specific applications (filters and optical computing). While such optical circuits offer high performance, they have the disadvantage of limited versatility. In this study, we aimed to develop a general-purpose processor architecture and realized three different types of signal processing on a single SOI chip: image processing, filtering, and signal equalization.

Presentation Details:

Optical frequency division (OFD) using an optical frequency comb is essential to read out an ultra-high-precision optical frequency reference such as an optical grid clock in a form that can be used electrically as an RF signal. However, a single microcomb is difficult to realize on a chip scale because of the stringent conditions required for self-referencing. In this paper, we solve this problem by using various beat signals with a Vernier (sub-scale) dual-microcom system, and succeeded in splitting a reference frequency of 344 THz as an input into the 235 MHz RF domain. This is the first example of optical clock OFD using the Vernier dual-microcomb system.