Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 1, 011303(2022)

Electro-optically tunable microdisk laser on Er3+-doped lithium niobate thin film

Yiran Zhu1, Yuan Zhou2,3, Zhe Wang2,3,4, Zhiwei Fang1、*, Zhaoxiang Liu1、**, Wei Chen1, Min Wang1, Haisu Zhang1, and Ya Cheng1,2,5,6,7、***
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  • 1The Extreme Optoelectromechanics Laboratory (XXL), School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-intense Laser Science, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai 201800, China
  • 3Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 4School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 200031, China
  • 5State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Institute of Laser Spectroscopy, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 6Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 7Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China
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    (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.
    (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.
    (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.
    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.
    (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)

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    Paper Information

    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)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202220.011303

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