Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate
Abstract
Electrically driven acousto-optic devices that provide beam deflection and optical frequency shifting have broad applications from pulse synthesis to heterodyne detection. Commercially available acousto-optic modulators are based on bulk materials and consume Watts of radio frequency power. Here, we demonstrate an integrated 3-GHz acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate, featuring a carrier suppression over 30 dB. Further, we demonstrate a gigahertz-spaced optical frequency comb featuring more than 200 lines over a 0.6-THz optical bandwidth by recirculating the light in an active frequency shifting loop. Our integrated acousto-optic platform leads to the development of on-chip optical routing, isolation, and microwave signal processing.
- Authors:
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- California Institute of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1643189
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1803636
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019219
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Optics Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Optics Express Journal Volume: 28 Journal Issue: 16; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Optics
Citation Formats
Shao, Linbo, Sinclair, Neil, Leatham, James, Hu, Yaowen, Yu, Mengjie, Turpin, Terry, Crowe, Devon, and Lončar, Marko. Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1364/OE.397138.
Shao, Linbo, Sinclair, Neil, Leatham, James, Hu, Yaowen, Yu, Mengjie, Turpin, Terry, Crowe, Devon, & Lončar, Marko. Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.397138
Shao, Linbo, Sinclair, Neil, Leatham, James, Hu, Yaowen, Yu, Mengjie, Turpin, Terry, Crowe, Devon, and Lončar, Marko. Mon .
"Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.397138.
@article{osti_1643189,
title = {Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate},
author = {Shao, Linbo and Sinclair, Neil and Leatham, James and Hu, Yaowen and Yu, Mengjie and Turpin, Terry and Crowe, Devon and Lončar, Marko},
abstractNote = {Electrically driven acousto-optic devices that provide beam deflection and optical frequency shifting have broad applications from pulse synthesis to heterodyne detection. Commercially available acousto-optic modulators are based on bulk materials and consume Watts of radio frequency power. Here, we demonstrate an integrated 3-GHz acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate, featuring a carrier suppression over 30 dB. Further, we demonstrate a gigahertz-spaced optical frequency comb featuring more than 200 lines over a 0.6-THz optical bandwidth by recirculating the light in an active frequency shifting loop. Our integrated acousto-optic platform leads to the development of on-chip optical routing, isolation, and microwave signal processing.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.397138},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 16,
volume = 28,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
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https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.397138
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