Electro-Optical Comb Envelope Engineering Based on Mode Crossing

Resonator-enhanced electro-optical (EO) combs could generate a series of comb lines with high coherence and stability. Recently, EO comb based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has begun to show great potential thanks to the high second-order nonlinearity coefficient of lithium niobate crystal. He...

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Main Authors: Shuting Kang, Xiaomin Lv, Chen Yang, Rui Ma, Feng Gao, Xuanyi Yu, Fang Bo, Guoquan Zhang, Jingjun Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-03-01
Series:Materials
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/17/5/1190
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Summary:Resonator-enhanced electro-optical (EO) combs could generate a series of comb lines with high coherence and stability. Recently, EO comb based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has begun to show great potential thanks to the high second-order nonlinearity coefficient of lithium niobate crystal. Here we demonstrate that EO comb envelope engineering based on mode crossing induced a quality factor reduction in the TFLN racetrack microcavity both in the numerical simulation and experiment. Our method paves the way for the generation of EO combs with an arbitrary envelope.
ISSN:1996-1944