Mitigating photorefractive effect in thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators
Abstract
Thin-film lithium niobate is an attractive integrated photonics platform due to its low optical loss and favorable optical nonlinear and electro-optic properties. However, in applications such as second harmonic generation, frequency comb generation, and microwave-to-optics conversion, the device performance is strongly impeded by the photorefractive effect inherent in thin-film lithium niobate. In this paper, we show that the dielectric cladding on a lithium niobate microring resonator has a significant influence on the photorefractive effect. By removing the dielectric cladding layer, the photorefractive effect in lithium niobate ring resonators can be effectively mitigated. Our work presents a reliable approach to control the photorefractive effect on thin-film lithium niobate and will further advance the performance of integrated classical and quantum photonic devices based on thin-film lithium niobate.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); National Science Foundation (NSF); Army Research Office (ARO)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1842376
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1853216
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0019406; EFMA-1640959; W911NF-18-1-0020
- Resource Type:
- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Optics Express
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Optics Express Journal Volume: 29 Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 1094-4087
- Publisher:
- Optical Society of America
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 42 ENGINEERING
Citation Formats
Xu, Yuntao, Shen, Mohan, Lu, Juanjuan, Surya, Joshua B., Sayem, Ayed Al, and Tang, Hong X. Mitigating photorefractive effect in thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1364/OE.418877.
Xu, Yuntao, Shen, Mohan, Lu, Juanjuan, Surya, Joshua B., Sayem, Ayed Al, & Tang, Hong X. Mitigating photorefractive effect in thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators. United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.418877
Xu, Yuntao, Shen, Mohan, Lu, Juanjuan, Surya, Joshua B., Sayem, Ayed Al, and Tang, Hong X. Thu .
"Mitigating photorefractive effect in thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators". United States. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.418877.
@article{osti_1842376,
title = {Mitigating photorefractive effect in thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators},
author = {Xu, Yuntao and Shen, Mohan and Lu, Juanjuan and Surya, Joshua B. and Sayem, Ayed Al and Tang, Hong X.},
abstractNote = {Thin-film lithium niobate is an attractive integrated photonics platform due to its low optical loss and favorable optical nonlinear and electro-optic properties. However, in applications such as second harmonic generation, frequency comb generation, and microwave-to-optics conversion, the device performance is strongly impeded by the photorefractive effect inherent in thin-film lithium niobate. In this paper, we show that the dielectric cladding on a lithium niobate microring resonator has a significant influence on the photorefractive effect. By removing the dielectric cladding layer, the photorefractive effect in lithium niobate ring resonators can be effectively mitigated. Our work presents a reliable approach to control the photorefractive effect on thin-film lithium niobate and will further advance the performance of integrated classical and quantum photonic devices based on thin-film lithium niobate.},
doi = {10.1364/OE.418877},
journal = {Optics Express},
number = 4,
volume = 29,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Thu Feb 04 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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