分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Yuan Zhou
Zhe Wang
Zhiwei Fang
Zhaoxiang Liu
Haisu Zhang
Difeng Yin
Youting Liang
Zhihao Zhang
Jian Liu
Ting Huang
Rui Bao
Rongbo Wu
Jintian Lin
Min Wang
Ya Cheng
摘要： We demonstrate an on-chip Yb3+-doped lithium niobate (LN) microdisk laser. The intrinsic quality factors of the fabricated Yb3+-doped LN microdisk resonator are measured up to 3.79x10^5 at 976 nm wavelength and 1.1x10^6 at 1514 nm wavelength. The multi-mode laser emissions are obtained in a band from 1020 nm to 1070 nm pumped by 984 nm laser and with the low threshold of 103 {\mu}W, resulting in a slope efficiency of 0.53% at room temperature. Furthermore, the second-harmonic frequency of pump light and the sum-frequency of the pump light and laser emissions are both generated in the on-chip Yb3+-doped LN microdisk benefited from the strong \c{hi}(2) nonlinearity of LN. These microdisk lasers are expected to contribute to the high-density integration of LNOI-based photonic chip.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Renhong Gao
Jianglin Guan
Ni Yao
Li Deng
Jintian Lin
Min Wang
Lingling Qiao
Zhenhua Wang
Youting Liang
Yuan Zhou
Ya Cheng
摘要： We report an on-chip single mode microlaser with low-threshold fabricated on Erbium doped lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI). The single mode laser emission at 1550.5 nm wavelength is generated in a coupled photonic molecule, which is facilitated by Vernier effect when pumping the photonic molecule at 970 nm. A threshold pump power as low as 200 uW is demonstrated thanks to the high quality factor above 10^6. Moreover, the linewidth of the microlaser reaches 4 kHz, which is the best result in LNOI microlasers. Such single mode micro-laser lithographically fabricated on chip is highly in demand by photonic community.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Shupeng Yu
Zhiwei Fang
Zhe Wang
Yuan Zhou
Qinfen Huang
Jian Liu
Rongbo Wu
Haisu Zhang
Min Wang
Ya Cheng
摘要： We demonstrate an on-chip single-mode Er3+-doped thin film lithium niobate (Er: TFLN) laser which consists of a Fabry-P\'erot (FP) resonator based on Sagnac loop reflectors (SLRs). The fabricated Er: TFLN laser has a footprint of 6.5 mmx1.5 mm with a loaded quality (Q) factor of 1.6x105 and a free spectral range (FSR) of 63 pm. We generate the single-mode laser around 1550-nm wavelength with a maximum output power of 44.7 {\mu}W and a slope efficiency of 0.18 %.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
摘要： Photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching (PLACE), a technique specifically developed for fabricating highquality large-scale photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN), has enabled fabrication of a series of building blocks of PICs ranging from high-quality (high-Q) microresonators and low-loss waveguides to electrooptically (EO) tunable lasers and waveguide amplifiers. Aiming at high-throughput manufacturing of the PIC devices and systems, we have developed an ultra-high-speed high-resolution laser lithography fabrication system employing a high repetition rate femtosecond laser and a high-speed polygon laser scanner, by which a lithography fabrication efficiency of 4.8 cm2/h has been achieved at a spatial resolution of 200 nm. We demonstrate wafer-scale fabrication of TFLN-based photonic structures, optical phase masks as well as color printing
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Jintian Lin
Saeed Farajollahi
Zhiwei Fang
Ni Yao
Renhong Gao
Jianglin Guan
Li Deng
Tao Lu
Min Wang
Haisu Zhang
Wei Fang
Lingling Qiao
Ya Cheng
摘要： Integrated single-mode microlasers with ultra-narrow linewidths play a game-changing role in a broad spectrum of applications ranging from coherent communication and LIDAR to metrology and sensing. Generation of such light sources in a controllable and cost-effective manner remains an outstanding challenge due to the difficulties in the realization of ultra-high Q active micro-resonators with suppressed mode numbers. Here, we report a microlaser generated in an ultra-high Q Erbium doped lithium niobate (LN) micro-disk. Through the formation of coherently combined polygon modes at both pump and laser wavelengths, the microlaser exhibits single mode operation with an ultra-narrow-linewidth of 98 Hz. In combination with the superior electro-optic and nonlinear optical properties of LN crystal, the mass-producible on-chip single-mode microlaser will provide an essential building block for the photonic integrated circuits demanding high precision frequency control and reconfigurability.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Bo-Yu Xu
Li-Kun Chen
Jintian Lin
Lan-Tian Feng1
Rui Niu
Zhi-Yuan Zhou
Renhong Gao
Chun-Hua Dong
Guang-Can Guo
Qihuang Gong
Ya Cheng
Yun-Feng Xiao
Xi-Feng Ren
摘要： On-chip bright quantum sources with multiplexing ability are extremely high in demand for the integrated quantum networks with unprecedented scalability and complexity. Here, we demonstrate an ultrabright and broadband biphoton quantum source generated in a lithium niobate microresonator system.Without introducing the conventional domain poling, the on-chip microdisk produces entangled photon pairs covering a broad bandwidth promised by natural phase matching in spontaneous parametric down conversion.Experimentally, the multiplexed photon pairs are characterized by $30\ \rm nm$ bandwidth limited by the filtering system, which can be furthered enlarged.Meanwhile, the generation rate reaches $5.13\ {\rm MHz}/\upmu \rm W$ with a coincidence-to-accidental ratio up to $804$.Besides, the quantum source manifests the prominent purity with heralded single photon correlation $g_H^{(2)}(0)=0.0098\pm0.0021$ and energy-time entanglement with excellent interference visibility of $96.5\%\pm1.9\%$. Such quantum sources at the telecommunication band pave the way for high-dimensional entanglement and future integrated quantum information systems.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Chengli Wang
Zhiwei Fang
Ailun Yi
Bingcheng Yang
Zhe Wang
Liping Zhou
Chen Shen
Yifan Zhu
Yuan Zhou
Rui Bao
Zhongxu Li
Yang Chen
Kai Huang
Jiaxiang Zhang
Ya Cheng
Xin Ou
摘要： The realization of ultrahigh quality (Q) resonators regardless of the underpinning material platforms has been a ceaseless pursuit, because the high Q resonators provide an extreme environment of storage of light to enable observations of many unconventional nonlinear optical phenomenon with high efficiencies. Here, we demonstrate an ultra-high Q factor (7.1*10^6) microresonator on the 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator (4H-SiCOI) platform in which both \c{hi}^(2) and \c{hi}^(3) nonlinear processes of high efficiencies have been generated. Broadband frequency conversions, including second-, third-, fourth-harmonic generation were observed. Cascaded Raman lasing was demonstrated in the SiC microresonator for the first time to the best of our knowledge. Broadband Kerr frequency combs covering from 1300 to 1700 nm were achieved using a dispersion-engineered SiC microresonator. Our demonstration is a significant milestone in the development of SiC photonic integrated devices.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Yuan Zhou
Yiran Zhu
Zhiwei Fang
Shupeng Yu
Ting Huang
Junxia Zhou
Rongbo Wu
Jian Liu
Yu Ma
Zhe Wang
Jianping Yu
Zhaoxiang Liu
Haisu Zhang
Zhenhua Wang
Min Wang
Ya Cheng
摘要： We demonstrate a robust low-loss optical interface by tiling passive (i.e., without doping of active ions) thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) and active (i.e., doped with rare earth ions) TFLN substrates for monolithic integration of passive/active lithium niobate photonics. The tiled substrates composed of both active and passive areas allow to pattern the mask of the integrated active passive photonic device at once using a single continuous photolithography process. The interface loss of tiled substrate is measured as low as 0.26 dB. Thanks to the stability provided by this approach, a four-channel waveguide amplifier is realized in a straightforward manner, which shows a net gain of ~5 dB at 1550-nm wavelength and that of ~8 dB at 1530-nm wavelength for each channel. The robust low-loss optical interface for passive/active photonic integration will facilitate large-scale high performance photonic devices which require on-chip light sources and amplifiers.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Jinping Yao
Luojia Wang
Jinming Chen
Yuexin Wan
Zhihao Zhang
Fangbo Zhang
Lingling Qiao
Shupeng Yu
Botao Fu
Zengxiu Zhao
Chengyin Wu
Vladislav V. Yakovlev
Luqi Yuan
Xianfeng Chen
Ya Cheng
摘要： Quantum coherence in quantum optics is an essential part of optical information processing and light manipulation. Alkali metal vapors, despite the numerous shortcomings, are traditionally used in quantum optics as a working medium due to convenient near-infrared excitation, strong dipole transitions and long-lived coherence. Here, we proposed and experimentally demonstrated photon retention and subsequent re-emittance with the quantum coherence in a system of coherently excited molecular nitrogen ions (N2+) which are produced using a strong 800 nm femtosecond laser pulse. Such photon retention, facilitated by quantum coherence, keeps releasing directly-unmeasurable coherent photons for tens of picoseconds, but is able to be read-out by a time-delayed femtosecond pulse centered at 1580 nm via two-photon resonant absorption, resulting in a strong radiation at 329.3 nm. We reveal a pivotal role of the excited-state population to transmit such extremely weak re-emitted photons in this system. This new finding unveils the nature of the coherent quantum control in N2+ for the potential platform for optical information storage in the remote atmosphere, and facilitates further exploration of fundamental interactions in the quantum optical platform with strong-field ionized molecules.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Youting Liang
Junxia Zhou
Rongbo Wu
Zhiwei Fang
Zhaoxiang Liu
Shupeng Yu
Difeng Yin
Haisu Zhang
Yuan Zhou
Jian Liu
Zhenhua Wang
Min Wang
Ya Cheng
摘要： We overcome the difficulty in realizing a monolithic waveguide-coupled microring laser integrated on erbium-doped thin film lithium niobate (Er: TFLN) using photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching (PLACE) technique. We demonstrate an integrated single-frequency microring laser operating around 1531 nm wavelength. The PLACE technique, enabling integrated Er: TFLN photonics with low propagation loss, can thus be used to realize low cost mass production of monolithic on-chip microlasers with applications ranging from optical communication and photonic integrated circuit (PIC) to precision metrology and large-scale sensing.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
摘要： We demonstrate ultra-high Q factor microring resonators close to the intrinsic material absorption limit on lithium niobate on insulator. The microrings are fabricated on pristine lithium niobate (LN) thin film wafer thinned from LN bulk via chemo-mechanical etching without ion slicing and ion etching. A record-high Q factor up to times ten to the power of 8th at the wavelength of 1550 nm is achieved because of the ultra-smooth interface of the microrings and the absence of ion induced lattice damage, indicating an ultra-low waveguide propagation loss of about 0.28 dB per meter. The ultra-high Q microrings will pave the way for integrated quantum light source, frequency comb generation, and nonlinear optical processes.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Jianglin Guan
Chuntao Li
Renhong Gao
Haisu Zhang
Jiantian Lin
Minghui Li
Min Wang
Lingling Qiao
Li Deng
Ya Cheng
摘要： Integrated on-chip microdisk lasers have attracted great attention as a light source of compact size, low lasing threshold and narrow bandwidth. However, challenges remain unresolved in terms of single mode operation at high output power while maintaining the ultra-narrow bandwidth. In this work, we demonstrate monolithically integrated on-chip single-frequency microdisk lasers coupled with bus-waveguides fabricated by photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching. Owing to the high-Q factor of a polygon whispering gallery mode formed in the microdisk and long cavity lengths (e.g., 409 um and 1 mm), a microdisk laser with a narrow linewidth of 0.11 MHz and a maximum output power of 62.1 uW has been achieved at room temperature.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Junxia Zhou
Ting Huang
Zhiwei Fang
Rongbo Wu
Yuan Zhou
Jian Liu
Haisu Zhang
Zhenhua Wang
Min Wang
Ya Cheng
摘要： We demonstrate an electrically driven compact hybrid lithium niobate microring laser by butt coupling a commercial 980-nm pump laser diode chip with a high quality Er3+-doped lithium niobate microring chip. Single mode lasing emission at 1531 nm wavelength from the Er3+-doped lithium niobate microring can be observed with the integrated 980-nm laser pumping. The compact hybrid lithium niobate microring laser occupies the chip size of 3 mmx4mmx0.5 mm. The threshold pumping laser power is 6 mW and the threshold current is 0.5 A (operating voltage 1.64 V) in the atmospheric temperature. The spectrum featuring single mode lasing with small linewidth of 0.05 nm is observed. This work explores a robust hybrid lithium niobate microring laser source which has potential applications in coherent optical communication and precision metrology.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Difeng Yin
Yuan Zhou
Zhaoxiang Liu
Zhe Wang
Haisu Zhang
Zhiwei Fang
Wei Chu
Rongbo Wu
Jianhao Zhang
Wei Chen
Min Wang
Ya Cheng
摘要： We demonstrate monolithic integration of an electro-optically (EO) tunable microring laser on lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) platform. The device is fabricated by photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching (PLACE), and the pump laser is evanescently coupled into the erbium (Er3+) doped LN microring laser using an undoped LN waveguide mounted above the microring. The quality factor of the LN microring resonator is measured as high as 1.54x10^5 at the wavelength of 1542 nm. Lasing action can be observed at a pump power threshold below 3.5 mW using a 980 nm continuous-wave pump laser. Finally, tuning of the laser wavelength is achieved by varying the electric voltage on the microelectrodes fabricated in the vicinity of microring waveguide, showing an EO coefficient of 0.33 pm/V.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Rongbo Wu
Lang Gao
Youting Liang
Yong Zheng
Junxia Zhou
Hongxin Qi
Difeng Yin
Min Wang
Zhiwei Fang
Ya Cheng
摘要： Integrated thin-film lithium niobate (LN) electro-optic (EO) modulators of broad bandwidth, low insertion loss, low cost and high production rate are essential elements in contemporary inter-connection industries and disruptive applications. Here, we demonstrated the design and fabri-cation of a high performance thin-film LN EO modulator using photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching (PLACE) technology. Our device shows a 3-dB bandwidth over 50 GHz, along with a comparable low half wave voltage-length product of 2.16 Vcm. We obtain a fiber-to-fiber insertion loss of 2.6 dB.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Zhihao Zhang
Zhiwei Fang
Junxia Zhou
Youting Liang
Yuan Zhou
Zhe Wang
Jian Liu
Ting Huang
Rui Bao
Jianping Yu
Haisu Zhang
Min Wang
Ya Cheng
摘要： We report the fabrication and optical characterization of Yb3+-doped waveguide amplifiers (YDWA) on the thin film lithium niobate fabricated by photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching. The fabricated Yb3+-doped lithium niobate waveguides demonstrates low propagation loss of 0.13 dB/cm at 1030 nm and 0.1 dB/cm at 1060 nm. The internal net gain of 5 dB at 1030 nm and 8 dB at 1060 nm are measured on a 4.0 cm long waveguide pumped by 976nm laser diodes, indicating the gain per unit length of 1.25 dB/cm at 1030 nm and 2 dB/cm at 1060 nm, respectively. The integrated Yb3+-doped lithium niobate waveguide amplifiers will benefit the development of a powerful gain platform and are expected to contribute to the high-density integration of thin film lithium niobate based photonic chip.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Renhong Gao
Botao Fu
Ni Yao
Jianglin Guan
Haisu Zhang
Jintian Lin
Chuntao Li
Min Wang
Lingling Qiao
Ya Cheng
摘要： Photonic-based low-phase-noise microwave generation with real-time frequency tuning is crucial for a broad spectrum of subjects, including next-generation wireless communications, radar, metrology, and modern instrumentation. Here, for the first time to the best of our knowledge, narrow-bandwidth dual-wavelength microlasers are generated from nearly degenerate polygon modes in a high-Q active lithium niobate microdisk. The high-Q polygon modes formation with independently controllable resonant wavelengths and free spectral ranges is enabled by the weak perturbation of the whispering gallery microdisk resonators using a tapered fiber. The stable beating signal confirms the low phase-noise achieved in the tunable laser. Owing to the high spatial overlap factors between the two nearly degenerate lasing modes as well as that between the two lasing modes and the pump mode, gain competition between the two modes is suppressed, leading to stable dual-wavelength laser generation and in turn the low noise microwave source. The measured microwave signal shows a linewidth of ~6.87 kHz, a phase noise of ~-123 dBc/Hz, and an electro-optic tuning efficiency of -1.66 MHz/V.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Heng Tang
Lingrong Zhao
Pengfei Zhu
Xiao Zou
Jia Qi
Ya Cheng
Jiaqi Qiu
Xianggang Hu
Wei Song
Dao Xiang
Jie Zhang
摘要： Particle accelerators that use electromagnetic fields to increase a charged particle's energy have greatly advanced the development of science and industry since invention. However, the enormous cost and size of conventional radio-frequency accelerators have limited their accessibility. Here we demonstrate a mini-accelerator powered by terahertz pulses with wavelengths 100 times shorter than radio-frequency pulses. By injecting a short relativistic electron bunch to a 30-mm-long dielectric-lined waveguide and tuning the frequency of a 20-period terahertz pulse to the phase-velocity-matched value, precise and sustained acceleration for nearly 100% of the electrons is achieved with the beam energy spread essentially unchanged. Furthermore, by accurately controlling the phase of two terahertz pulses, the beam is stably accelerated successively in two dielectric waveguides with close to 100% charge coupling efficiency. Our results demonstrate stable and scalable beam acceleration in a multistage mini-accelerator and pave the way for functioning terahertz-driven high-energy accelerators.
分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Youting Liang
Junxia Zhou
Zhaoxiang Liu
Haisu Zhang
Zhiwei Fang
Yuan Zhou
Difeng Yin
Jintian Lin
Jianping Yu
Rongbo Wu
Min Wang
Ya Cheng
摘要： Erbium doped integrated waveguide amplifier and laser prevail in power consumption, footprint, stability and scalability over the counterparts in bulk materials, underpinning the lightwave communication and large-scale sensing. Subject to the highly confined mode and moderate propagation loss, gain and power scaling in such integrated micro-to-nanoscale devices prove to be more challenging compared to their bulk counterparts. In this work, stimulated by the prevalent success of double-cladding optical fiber in high-gain/power operation, a Ta2O5 cladding is employed in the erbium doped lithium niobate (LN) waveguide amplifier fabricated on the thin film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) wafer by the photolithography assisted chemomechanical etching (PLACE) technique. Above 20 dB small signal internal net gain is achieved at the signal wavelength around 1532 nm in the 10 cm long LNOI amplifier pumped by the diode laser at ~980 nm. Experimental characterizations reveal the advantage of Ta2O5 cladding in higher optical gain compared with the air-clad amplifier, which is further explained by the theoretical modeling of the LNOI amplifier including the guided mode structures and the steady-state response of erbium ions.
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