分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Maodong Gao
Qi-Fan Yang
Qing-Xin Ji
Heming Wang
Lue Wu
Boqiang Shen
Junqiu Liu
Guanhao Huang
Lin Chang
Weiqiang Xie
Su-Peng Yu
Scott B. Papp
John E. Bowers
Tobias J. Kippenberg
Kerry J. Vahala
摘要： Optical microresonators with high quality ($Q$) factors are essential to a wide range of integrated photonic devices. Steady efforts have been directed towards increasing microresonator $Q$ factors across a variety of platforms. With success in reducing microfabrication process-related optical loss as a limitation of $Q$, the ultimate attainable $Q$, as determined solely by the constituent microresonator material absorption, has come into focus. Here, we report measurements of the material-limited $Q$ factors in several photonic material platforms. High-$Q$ microresonators are fabricated from thin films of SiO$_2$, Si$_3$N$_4$, Al$_{0.2}$Ga$_{0.8}$As and Ta$_2$O$_5$. By using cavity-enhanced photothermal spectroscopy, the material-limited $Q$ is determined. The method simultaneously measures the Kerr nonlinearity in each material and reveals how material nonlinearity and ultimate $Q$ vary in a complementary fashion across photonic materials. Besides guiding microresonator design and material development in four material platforms, the results help establish performance limits in future photonic integrated systems.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Lue Wu
Weiqiang Xie
Chao Xiang
Lin Chang
Yan Yu
Hao-Jing Chen
Yoshihisa Yamamoto
John E. Bowers
Kerry J. Vahala
Myoung-Gyun Suh
摘要： Chip-integrated optical frequency combs are attractive optical sources in comb applications requiring high-repetition-rate, low power consumption, or compact size. Spontaneous soliton formation via Kerr parametric oscillation is a promising generation principle in these frequency combs, and has been demonstrated in several material platforms over the past decade. Of these materials, AlGaAs has one of the largest Kerr nonlinearity coefficients allowing low pump threshold comb generation. However, bright soliton generation using this material has only been possible at cryogenic temperature because of the large thermo-optic effect at room temperature, which hinders stable access to the soliton regime. Here, we report self-stabilized single soliton generation in AlGaAs microresonators at room temperature by utilizing a rising soliton step in large free-spectral-range resonators. With sub-milliWatt optical pump power, 1 THz repetition-rate soliton generation is demonstrated. Perfect soliton crystal formation and soliton breather states are also observed. Besides the advantages of large optical nonlinearity, the devices are natural candidates for integration with III-V pump lasers.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Haowen Shu
Lin Chang
Yuansheng Tao
Bitao Shen
Weiqiang Xie
Ming Jin
Andrew Netherton
Zihan Tao
Xuguang Zhang
Ruixuan Chen
Bowen Bai
Jun Qin
Shaohua Yu
Xingjun Wang
John E. Bowers
摘要： Microcombs have sparked a surge of applications over the last decade, ranging from optical communications to metrology. Despite their diverse deployment, most microcomb-based systems rely on a tremendous amount of bulk equipment to fulfill their desired functions, which is rather complicated, expensive and power-consuming. On the other hand, foundry-based silicon photonics (SiPh) has had remarkable success in providing versatile functionality in a scalable and low-cost manner, but its available chip-based light sources lack the capacity for parallelization, which limits the scope of SiPh applications. Here, we bridge these two technologies by using a power-efficient and operationally-simple AlGaAs on insulator microcomb source to drive CMOS SiPh engines. We present two important chip-scale photonic systems for optical data transmissions and microwave photonics respectively: The first microcomb-based integrated photonic data link is demonstrated, based on a pulse-amplitude 4-level modulation scheme with 2 Tbps aggregate rate, and a highly reconfigurable microwave photonic filter with unprecedented integration level is constructed, using a time stretch scheme. Such synergy of microcomb and SiPh integrated components is an essential step towards the next generation of fully integrated photonic systems.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Haowen Shu
Lin Chang
Chenghao Lao
Bitao Shen
Weiqiang Xie
Xuguang Zhang
Ming Jin
Yuansheng Tao
Ruixuan Chen
Zihan Tao
Shaohua Yu
Qi-Fan Yang
Xingjun Wang
John E. Bowers
摘要： Microcombs are revolutionizing optoelectronics by providing parallelized, mutually coherent wavelength channels for time-frequency metrology and information processing. To implement this essential function in integrated photonic systems, it is desirable to drive microcombs directly with an on-chip laser in a simple and flexible way. However, two major difficulties are preventing this goal: 1) generating mode-locked comb states usually requires a significant amount of pump power and 2) the requirement to align laser and resonator frequency significantly complicates operation and limits the tunability of the comb lines. Here, we address these problems by using microresonators on an AlGaAs on-insulator platform to generate dark-pulse microcombs. This highly nonlinear platform dramatically relaxes fabrication requirements and leads to a record-low pump power of less than 1 mW for coherent comb generation. Dark-pulse microcombs facilitated by thermally-controlled avoided mode-crossings are accessed by direct DFB laser pumping. Without any feedback or control circuitries, the comb shows good coherence and stability. This approach also leads to an unprecedented wide chirping range of all the comb lines. Our work provides a route to realize power-efficient, simple and reconfigurable microcombs that can be seamlessly integrated with a wide range of photonic systems.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Zhiquan Yuan
Heming Wang
Peng Liu
Bohan Li
Boqiang Shen
Maodong Gao
Lin Chang
Warren Jin
Avi Feshali
Mario Paniccia
John Bowers
Kerry Vahala
摘要： Narrow-linewidth lasers are important to many applications spanning precision metrology to sensing systems. Characterization of these lasers requires precise measurements of their frequency noise spectra. Here we demonstrate a correlated self-heterodyne (COSH) method capable of measuring frequency noise as low as 0.01 Hz$^2$/Hz at 1 MHz offset frequency. The measurement setup is characterized by both commercial and lab-built lasers, and features low optical power requirements, fast acquisition time and high intensity noise rejection.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Yuansheng Tao
Fenghe Yang
Zihan Tao
Lin Chang
Haowen Shu
Ming Jin
Yan Zhou
Zhangfeng Ge
Xingjun Wang
摘要： Microwave photonics (MWP), harnessing the tremendous bandwidth of light to generate, process and measure wideband microwave signals, are poised to spark a new revolution for the information and communication fields. Within the past decade, new opportunity for MWP has emerged driven by the advances of integrated photonics. However, despite significant progress made in terms of integration level, a fully on-chip MWP functional system comprising all the necessary photonic and electronic components, is yet to be demonstrated. Here, we break the status quo and provide a complete on-chip solution for MWP system, by exploiting hybrid integration of indium phosphide, silicon photonics and complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) electronics platforms. Applying this hybrid integration methodology, a fully chip-based MWP microwave instantaneous frequency measurement (IFM) system is experimentally demonstrated. The unprecedented integration level brings great promotion to the compactness, reliability, and performances of the overall MWP IFM system, including a wide frequency measurement range (2-34 GHz), ultralow estimation errors (10.85 MHz) and a fast response speed (0.3 ns). Furthermore, we deploy the chip-scale MWP IFM system into realistic application tasks, where diverse microwave signals with rapid-varying frequencies at X-band (8-12 GHz) are accurately identified in real-time. This demonstration marks a milestone for the development of integrated MWP, by providing the technology basis for the miniaturization and massive implementations of various MWP functional systems.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Jingwei Ling
Jeremy Staffa
Heming Wang
Boqiang Shen
Lin Chang
Usman A. Javid
Lue Wu
Zhiquan Yuan
Raymond Lopez-Rios
Mingxiao Li
Yang He
Bohan Li
John E. Bowers
Kerry J. Vahala
Qiang Lin
摘要： High coherence visible and near-visible laser sources are centrally important to the operation of advanced position/navigation/timing systems as well as classical/quantum sensing systems. However, the complexity and size of these bench-top lasers is an impediment to their transitioning beyond the laboratory. Here, a system-on-a-chip that emits high-coherence visible and near-visible lightwaves is demonstrated. The devices rely upon a new approach wherein wavelength conversion and coherence increase by self-injection-locking are combined within in a single nonlinear resonator. This simplified approach is demonstrated in a hybridly-integrated device and provides a short-term linewidth around 10-30 kHz. On-chip, converted optical power over 2 mW is also obtained. Moreover, measurements show that heterogeneous integration can result in conversion efficiency higher than 25% with output power over 11 mW. Because the approach uses mature III-V pump lasers in combination with thin-film lithium niobate, it can be scaled for low-cost manufacturing of high-coherence visible emitters. Also, the coherence generation process can be transferred to other frequency conversion processes including optical parametric oscillation, sum/difference frequency generation, and third-harmonic generation.
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