Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 51, Issue 5, 20220302(2022)

Optical frequency comb in silicon nitride microresonator(Invited)

Jin Li1...2, Piyu Wang1,2, Zhengyu Wang1,2, Rui Niu1,2, Shuai Wan1,2,*, Guangcan Guo1,2, and Chunhua Dong12 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2Center For Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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    Optical resonators with high quality (Q) factor can restrict light in a small mode volume for a long time, greatly enhancing the interaction between light and matter, and becoming an important component with great potential in integrated optical devices. Focusing on the silicon nitride material platform, which is currently widely used in the field of integrated nonlinear optics, in order to solve the problem of large scattering loss in the large size on-chip silicon nitride microring resonator caused by the stitching error, the surface roughness and other factors, a series of fabrication process improvements were made to improve the quality factor of the large size silicon nitride microring resonator. The results show that the scattering loss of the silicon nitride waveguide can be effectively reduced by thin film redeposition process, and the intrinsic Q of the large size silicon nitride microring resonator with a radius of 560 μm is increased by 26% on average. Thanks to the improved Q of the large size microring resonator, the frequency comb with the repetition rate of 40 GHz is realized in the on-chip silicon nitride microring resonator.

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    Jin Li, Piyu Wang, Zhengyu Wang, Rui Niu, Shuai Wan, Guangcan Guo, Chunhua Dong. Optical frequency comb in silicon nitride microresonator(Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(5): 20220302

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    Paper Information

    Category: Special issue—Microcavity optical frequency comb technology

    Received: Feb. 20, 2022

    Accepted: May. 13, 2022

    Published Online: Jun. 14, 2022

    The Author Email: Wan Shuai (wanshuai@ustc.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20220302

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