高友, 刘拓, 王思宇, 郭海润. 高品质因子氧化硅微腔的制备和光频梳产生(特邀)[J]. 红外与激光工程, 2022, 51(5): 20220294. DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20220294
引用本文: 高友, 刘拓, 王思宇, 郭海润. 高品质因子氧化硅微腔的制备和光频梳产生(特邀)[J]. 红外与激光工程, 2022, 51(5): 20220294. DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20220294
Gao You, Liu Tuo, Wang Siyu, Guo Hairun. Fabrication and optical frequency comb generation in high-quality factor silicon oxide microcavity (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(5): 20220294. DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20220294
Citation: Gao You, Liu Tuo, Wang Siyu, Guo Hairun. Fabrication and optical frequency comb generation in high-quality factor silicon oxide microcavity (Invited)[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2022, 51(5): 20220294. DOI: 10.3788/IRLA20220294

高品质因子氧化硅微腔的制备和光频梳产生(特邀)

Fabrication and optical frequency comb generation in high-quality factor silicon oxide microcavity (Invited)

  • 摘要: 基于超高品质因子(Q值)和非线性光学微腔产生的光学频率梳(微腔光频梳)在大容量光通信、光学数据中心、光子神经形态运算以及大规模并行激光雷达等方面有着重要的应用。回音壁模式(WGM)微腔是研究微腔光频梳技术的一个重要平台,具有创纪录的超高Q值和超高精细度(Finesse),能够实现超窄线宽激光、窄线宽光学频率梳,合成超低噪声的光子微波;同时也是研究腔内孤子动力学的重要平台,对掌握孤子态的光学频率梳特性起到了重要的支撑作用。利用二氧化碳(CO2)激光器熔融氧化硅(SiO2)石英棒制备了高Q值的WGM微腔。其自由光谱范围(FSR)在10 GHz以上,Q值达到了108。对腔的谐振和耦合理想特性进行了表征,并在开放环境下观察到微腔受潮引起的Q值退化现象,通过二次退火实现了Q值的回升。在SiO2微腔中验证了基于非线性克尔(Kerr)效应的光学频率梳产生,其主要状态为调整不稳定性主导的低相干频率梳。同时,实验中也观察到了对应于全相干耗散孤子态频率梳的“阶跃”信号,表明目前制备的SiO2微腔具备实现低噪声孤子光频梳的能力,并具有微腔光频梳的应用潜力。

     

    Abstract: Based on ultra-high quality factor(Q) and nonlinear optical microcavities, optical microcombs(microcavity optical frequency comb) have enabled a variety of important applications including high volume optical communications, optical data center, photonic neuromorphic computation and massive parallel LIDAR. Whispering gallery mode (WGM) microcavities stand for an important platform for studying the microcavity optical frequency comb technology, particularly having record ultra-high Q factors as well as the ultra-high finesse. It can realize ultra-narrow linewidth lasers and optical frequency combs, and photonic microwaves for synthesizing ultra-low noise. Here we developed high Q WGM microcavities from a silica (SiO2) rod fused and shaped with the CO2 laser. The quality factor is above 108 with a free spectrum range at the level of 10 GHz. The cavity resonances as well as the coupling ideality have been characterized, where a degradation of Q factors in a humid environment was observed and recovered with a second annealing process. Moreover, Kerr comb generation was demonstrated in such SiO2 microcavities, which at the moment is mostly in a noisy state governed by the modulation instability regime. Yet the footprint of the cavity soliton state was experimentally observed as a “soliton step” signal. The results indicate that a low-noise and fully coherent soliton microcomb is potentially accessible in home developed SiO2 microcavities, and is readily for comb-related applications.

     

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