Electro-optic tuning of a single-frequency ultranarrow linewidth microdisk laser

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

doi:10.1117/1.AP.4.3.036001

Advanced Photonics, Volume. 4, Issue 3, 036001(2022)

Electro-optic tuning of a single-frequency ultranarrow linewidth microdisk laser

Jintian Lin^1,2、†, Saeed Farajollahi³, Zhiwei Fang⁴, Ni Yao^5,6, Renhong Gao^1,2, Jianglin Guan^4,7, Li Deng^4,7, Tao Lu^3、*, Min Wang^4,7, Haisu Zhang^4,7, Wei Fang^6,8、*, Lingling Qiao^1,2, and Ya Cheng^{1,2,4,7,9,10,11、*}

Author Affiliations

¹Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (SIOM), State Key Laboratory of High Field Laser Physics and CAS Center for Excellence in Ultra-Intense Laser Science, Shanghai, China

²University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, Beijing, China

³University of Victoria, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

⁴East China Normal University, School of Physics and Electronic Science, XXL—The Extreme Optoelectromechanics Laboratory, Shanghai, China

⁵Research Center for Intelligent Sensing, Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, China

⁶Zhejiang University, College of Optical Science and Engineering, The Interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Hangzhou, China

⁷East China Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, Shanghai, China

⁸Jiaxing Institute of Zhejiang University, Intelligent Optics & Photonics Research Center, Jiaxing, China

⁹Shanxi University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Taiyuan, China

¹⁰Shandong Normal University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Jinan, China

¹¹Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai, China

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Paper Information

Category: Research Articles

Received: Nov. 23, 2021

Accepted: Mar. 30, 2022

Published Online: May. 1, 2022

The Author Email: Lu Tao (taolu@ece.uvic.ca), Fang Wei (wfang08@zju.edu.cn), Cheng Ya (ya.cheng@siom.ac.cn)

DOI:10.1117/1.AP.4.3.036001

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