Visible Brillouin-quadratic microlaser in a high-Q thin-film lithium niobate microdisk

  • Xiaochao Luo
  • , Chuntao Li
  • , Xingzhao Huang
  • , Jintian Lin*
  • , Renhong Gao
  • , Yifei Yao
  • , Yingnuo Qiu
  • , Yixuan Yang
  • , Lei Wang
  • , Huakang Yu*
  • , Ya Cheng*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Narrow-linewidth lasers at short/visible wavelengths are crucial for quantum and atomic applications. However, such lasers are often accessible in bulky tabletop systems and remain scarce in on-chip photonic platforms. Here, we report an on-chip visible Brillouin-quadratic microlaser in a 117-μm-diameter thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) microdisk via dispersion engineering. Enabled by the ultra-high optical Q factor of 4.0×106, high optical mode density, small mode volume, strong photon-phonon interaction and high second-order nonlinearity of the TFLN microdisk, simultaneous generation of Stokes Brillouin lasing (SBL) with 10.17 GHz Brillouin shift and its second harmonic generation (SHG) are demonstrated, exhibiting a low threshold of only 1.81 mW. Further measurement confirms the intrinsic narrow-linewidths of both the SBL (~ 254 Hz) and the SHG (~ 864 Hz) along with a normalized frequency-double efficiency of 3.61%/mW. This demonstration of an on-chip ultra-narrow linewidth bi-chromatic Brillouin laser paves the way for on-chip quantum information processing and precise metrology.

Original languageEnglish
Article number11533
JournalNature Communications
Volume16
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 2025

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