Broadband second-harmonic generation in thin-film lithium niobate microdisk via cyclic quasi-phase matching

Jiefu Zhu; Tingting Ding; Xuerui Sun; Fengchao Ni; Hao Li; Shijie Liu; Yuanlin Zheng; Xianfeng Chen

doi:10.3788/COL202422.031903

Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 22, Issue 3, 031903(2024)

Broadband second-harmonic generation in thin-film lithium niobate microdisk via cyclic quasi-phase matching

Jiefu Zhu¹, Tingting Ding², Xuerui Sun¹, Fengchao Ni¹, Hao Li¹, Shijie Liu¹, Yuanlin Zheng^1,3、*, and Xianfeng Chen^1,3,4、**

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China

³Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

⁴Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China

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Jiefu Zhu, Tingting Ding, Xuerui Sun, Fengchao Ni, Hao Li, Shijie Liu, Yuanlin Zheng, Xianfeng Chen, "Broadband second-harmonic generation in thin-film lithium niobate microdisk via cyclic quasi-phase matching," Chin. Opt. Lett. 22, 031903 (2024)

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