Coherent terahertz radiation with 2.8-octave tunability through chip-scale photomixed microresonator optical parametric oscillation

Wang, Wenting; Lu, Ping-Keng; Vinod, Abhinav Kumar; Turan, Deniz; McMillan, James F.; Liu, Hao; Yu, Mingbin; Kwong, Dim-Lee; Jarrahi, Mona; Wong, Chee Wei

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-32739-6

Coherent terahertz radiation with 2.8-octave tunability through chip-scale photomixed microresonator optical parametric oscillation

Journal Article · Wed Aug 31 00:00:00 EDT 2022 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32739-6· OSTI ID:1904412

Wang, Wenting ^[1]; Lu, Ping-Keng ^[2]; Vinod, Abhinav Kumar ^[2]; Turan, Deniz ^[2]; McMillan, James F. ^[2]; ^[2]; Yu, Mingbin ^[3]; Kwong, Dim-Lee ^[4]; ^[2]; ^[2]

Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); OSTI
Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (China); Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore)
Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) (Singapore)

High-spectral-purity frequency-agile room-temperature sources in the terahertz spectrum are foundational elements for imaging, sensing, metrology, and communications. Here we present a chip-scale optical parametric oscillator based on an integrated nonlinear microresonator that provides broadly tunable single-frequency and multi-frequency oscillators in the terahertz regime. Through optical-to-terahertz down-conversion using a plasmonic nanoantenna array, coherent terahertz radiation spanning 2.8-octaves is achieved from 330 GHz to 2.3 THz, with ≈20 GHz cavity-mode-limited frequency tuning step and ≈10 MHz intracavity-mode continuous frequency tuning range at each step. By controlling the microresonator intracavity power and pump-resonance detuning, tunable multi-frequency terahertz oscillators are also realized. Furthermore, by stabilizing the microresonator pump power and wavelength, sub-100 Hz linewidth of the terahertz radiation with 10^–15 residual frequency instability is demonstrated. The room-temperature generation of both single-frequency, frequency-agile terahertz radiation and multi-frequency terahertz oscillators in the chip-scale platform offers unique capabilities in metrology, sensing, imaging and communications.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); University of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); US Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (ONR); USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0016925

OSTI ID:: 1904412

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 2001454

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 13; ISSN 2041-1723

Publisher:: Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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