Backscatter-Immune Injection-Locked Brillouin Laser in Silicon

Otterstrom, Nils T.; Gertler, Shai; Zhou, Yishu; Kittlaus, Eric A.; Behunin, Ryan O.; Gehl, Michael; Starbuck, Andrew L.; Dallo, Christina M.; Pomerene, Andrew T.; Trotter, Douglas C.; Lentine, Anthony L.; Rakich, Peter T.

doi:10.1103/physrevapplied.14.044042

Backscatter-Immune Injection-Locked Brillouin Laser in Silicon

Journal Article · Thu Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Physical Review Applied

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevapplied.14.044042· OSTI ID:1725842

^[1]; ^[2]; Zhou, Yishu ^[2]; ^[3]; Behunin, Ryan O. ^[4]; Gehl, Michael ^[5]; Starbuck, Andrew L. ^[5]; Dallo, Christina M. ^[5]; Pomerene, Andrew T. ^[5]; Trotter, Douglas C. ^[5]; Lentine, Anthony L. ^[5]; Rakich, Peter T. ^[2]

Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States); California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab. (JPL)
Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

As self-sustained oscillators, lasers possess the unusual ability to spontaneously synchronize. These nonlinear dynamics are the basis for a simple yet powerful stabilization technique known as injection locking, in which a laser’s frequency and phase can be controlled by an injected signal. Because of its inherent simplicity and favorable noise characteristics, injection locking has become a workhorse for coherent amplification and high-fidelity signal synthesis in applications ranging from precision atomic spectroscopy to distributed sensing. Within integrated photonics, however, these injection-locking dynamics remain relatively untapped—despite significant potential for technological and scientific impact. In this work, we demonstrate injection locking in a silicon photonic Brillouin laser. Injection locking of this monolithic device is remarkably robust, allowing us to tune the laser emission by a significant fraction of the Brillouin gain bandwidth. Harnessing these dynamics, we demonstrate amplification of small signals by more than 23 dB. Moreover, we demonstrate that the injection-locking dynamics of this system are inherently nonreciprocal, yielding unidirectional control and backscatter immunity in an all-silicon system. This device physics opens the door to strategies for phase-noise reduction, low-noise amplification, and backscatter immunity in silicon photonics.

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Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; National Science Foundation (NSF)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; NA0003525

OSTI ID:: 1725842

Report Number(s):: SAND--2020-11633J; 692201

Journal Information:: Physical Review Applied, Journal Name: Physical Review Applied Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 14; ISSN 2331-7019

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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