The formation of high-Q polygon modes in weakly perturbed microdisks on thin-film lithium niobate and its applications

  • Jintian Lin
  • , Renhong Gao
  • , Botao Fu
  • , Ni Yao
  • , Jianglin Guan
  • , Chuntao Li
  • , Minghui Li
  • , Guanghui Zhao
  • , Ya Cheng*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

Abstract

Mode trimming of suitable dispersion in a high-Q microresonator is of vital importance for lots of photonic applications ranging from Kerr soliton comb generation, single-frequency lasing to nonlinear frequency conversion. However, almost all the dispersion engineering and mode trimming cannot be tuned once the resonator structure is made. To overcome this difficulty, weak perturbation was introduced into a circular lithium niobate (LN) microdisk for the formation of polygon modes by a coupled tapered fiber. Various polygon modes with different spatial field distributions and star mode can be formed by tuning the pump wavelength and the coupling position. Thanks to the small spatial modal overlap between the polygon modes and the whispering gallery modes (WGMs), densely distributed WGM families were avoided to be excited under polygon-mode optical pump. Therefore, single-frequency/dual-wavelength microlasers have been demonstrated with narrow linewidths in weakly-perturbed erbium-doped LN microdisks, and Kerr soliton microcomb has been generated in the telecom band in a normal-dispersion LN microdisk by mode trimming through the excitation of the anomalous-dispersion polygon modes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationQuantum and Nonlinear Optics X
EditorsQiongyi He, Dai-Sik Kim, Chuan-Feng Li
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510667990
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
EventQuantum and Nonlinear Optics X 2023 - Beijing, China
Duration: 14 Oct 202316 Oct 2023

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume12775
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceQuantum and Nonlinear Optics X 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period14/10/2316/10/23

Keywords

  • lithium niobate
  • microlaser
  • microwave photonics
  • soliton microcomb

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'The formation of high-Q polygon modes in weakly perturbed microdisks on thin-film lithium niobate and its applications'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this