Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 1, 011303(2022)
Electro-optically tunable microdisk laser on Er3+-doped lithium niobate thin film
Fig. 1. (a) Schematic of the on-chip Er3+-doped LN microdisk resonator integrated with Cr film electrodes. (b) The top view of the 200-µm-diameter Er3+-doped LN microdisk from the optical microscope. (c) The enlarged image of the rim of the Er3+-doped LN microdisk by a 100× microscope objective.
Fig. 2. (a) Schematic of the experimental setup for tunable Er3+-doped LN microdisk laser. (WG, waveform generator; CTL, C-band tunable laser; PL, pump laser; PC, polarization controller; PD, photodetector; Osc, oscilloscope; OSA, optical spectrum analyzer; VG, voltage generator; OF, optical fiber; EC, electric cable.) (b) The measured transmission spectrum for the wavelength of the Er3+-doped LN microdisk laser. (c) The experimental setup photographed by a cell phone.
Fig. 3. (a) Histogram showing the statistic results of 80 resonant modes in Er3+-doped LN microdisk. (b) The double Lorentzian fitting showing a mode splitting, indicating both intrinsic Q factors of 2.13 × 106 as measured at λ = 1544 nm.
Fig. 4. Electro-optic modulation in Er3+-doped LN microdisk resonator. (a) Normalized transmission measured when −200 V, −150 V, −100 V, −50 V, 0 V, +50 V, +100 V, +150 V, and +200 V voltages were applied on the electrodes. (b) The linear fitting of resonance wavelength shift in the Er3+-doped LN microdisk resonator with the applied negative and positive voltages.
Fig. 5. (a) Spectrum of the Er3+-doped LN microdisk laser with the pump power at 18 mW. (b) Recorded lasing spectra of the microdisk with the increasing voltage applied on electrodes.
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Yiran Zhu, Yuan Zhou, Zhe Wang, Zhiwei Fang, Zhaoxiang Liu, Wei Chen, Min Wang, Haisu Zhang, Ya Cheng, "Electro-optically tunable microdisk laser on Er3+-doped lithium niobate thin film," Chin. Opt. Lett. 20, 011303 (2022)
Category: Integrated Optics
Received: Jul. 4, 2021
Accepted: Jul. 30, 2021
Published Online: Sep. 23, 2021
The Author Email: Zhiwei Fang (zwfang@phy.ecnu.edu.cn), Zhaoxiang Liu (zxliu@phy.ecnu.edu.cn), Ya Cheng (ya.cheng@siom.ac.cn)