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. 2016 May 16;6:26255. doi: 10.1038/srep26255

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(a) In the designed single-mode microresonator, phase-locked Kerr frequency combs can be generated by pumping at any resonances in the C-band. Three example spectra are shown here. Moreover, the spectral shapes are smooth without periodic amplitude modulations, distinctly different from Fig. 1. (b) Pump power transmission as the pump wavelength is scanned across a cavity resonance at a speed of 60 nm/s. The observation of the step signature is characteristic of the low-phase noise soliton state (state 2). (c) RF amplitude noise of the Kerr frequency comb at different states (1: high-phase noise, 2: low-phase noise) along with the detector background (3), showing the transition in and out of the low-phase noise state. The scan range of 1 GHz is more than five times the cavity linewidth.