Electro-Optical Comb Envelope Engineering Based on Mode Crossing

Overview

Journal Materials (Basel)

Publisher MDPI

Date 2024 Mar 13

PMID 38473661

Authors

Shuting Kang

Xiaomin Lv

Chen Yang

Rui Ma

Feng Gao

Xuanyi Yu

Fang Bo

Guoquan Zhang

Jingjun Xu

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Abstract

Resonator-enhanced electro-optical (EO) combs could generate a series of comb lines with high coherence and stability. Recently, EO comb based on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has begun to show great potential thanks to the high second-order nonlinearity coefficient of lithium niobate crystal. Here we demonstrate that EO comb envelope engineering based on mode crossing induced a quality factor reduction in the TFLN racetrack microcavity both in the numerical simulation and experiment. Our method paves the way for the generation of EO combs with an arbitrary envelope.

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