Integrated Optical Vortex Microcomb

分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Bo Chen Yueguang Zhou Peinian Huang Chaochao Ye Qian Cao Yang Liu Chanju Kim Kresten Yvind Jin Li Chunhua Dong Songnian Fu Qiwen Zhan Xuehua Wang Minhao Pu Jin Liu

摘要： The explorations of physical degrees of freedom with infinite dimensionalities, such as orbital angular momentum and frequency of light, have profoundly reshaped the landscape of modern optics with representative photonic functional devices including optical vortex emitters and frequency combs. In nanophotonics, whisper gallery mode microresonators naturally support orbital angular momentum of light and have been demonstrated as on-chip emitters of monochromatic optical vortices. On the other hand, whisper gallery mode microresonators serve as a highly-efficient nonlinear optical platform for producing light at different frequencies - i.e., microcombs. Here, we interlace the optical vortices and microcombs by demonstrating an optical vortex comb on an III-V integrated nonlinear microresonator. The angular-grating-dressed nonlinear microring simultaneously emits up to 50 orbital angular momentum modes that are each spectrally addressed to the frequency components ((longitudinal whispering gallery modes) of the generated microcomb. We further show that the integrated vortex comb with varied orbital angular momenta distributed across different frequencies exhibits unprecedented advantages in the synthesis of spatio-temporal optical pulses with time-varying orbital angular momenta. This work may immediately boost the development of integrated nonlinear/quantum photonics for exploring fundamental optical physics and advancing photonic quantum technology.

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