Ultrabroadband Milliwatt-Level Resonant Frequency Doubling on a Chip

Abstract

Microresonators are powerful tools to enhance the efficiency of second-order nonlinear optical processes, such as second-harmonic generation, which can coherently bridge octave-spaced spectral bands. However, dispersion constraints such as phase-matching and doubly resonant conditions have so far limited demonstrations to narrowband operation. In this work, we overcome these limitations showing ultrabroadband resonant frequency doubling in a novel integrated device, wherein the resonant enhancement of pump and second harmonic are individually addressed in two distinct and linearly uncoupled microring resonators, each adjusted to target the respective spectral band. The two microresonators are designed and tuned independently, yet share a common interaction region that grants nonlinear coupling over a quasi-phase-matching bandwidth exceeding 200 nm, enabled by the inscription of a photoinduced ${\chi }^{(2)}$ grating. The system allows to not only conveniently disentangle the design parameters of the two microresonators but also to reconfigure the doubly resonant condition electrically, and the phase-matching condition optically. We demonstrate milliwatt-level addressable second-harmonic generation over the entire telecom band and then configure the device to internally generate and upconvert a Kerr frequency comb with bandwidth exceeding 100 nm and upconverted power up to 10 mW.

Main text: 11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; SI: 6 pages, 6 figures

References in corpus (10)

• Nonlinear Coupling of Linearly Uncoupled Resonators
• A chip-scale second-harmonic source via injection-locked all-optical poling
• Near perfect two-photon interference out a down-converter on a silicon photonic chip
• Generation of photon pairs by spontaneous four-wave mixing in linearly uncoupled resonators
• High-coherence hybrid-integrated 780 nm source by self-injection-locked second-harmonic generation in a high-Q silicon-nitride resonator
• Photo-induced cascaded harmonic and comb generation in silicon nitride microresonators
• Single-photon nonlinearities and blockade from a strongly driven photonic molecule
• Integrated frequency-modulated optical parametric oscillator
• Adapted poling to break the nonlinear efficiency limit in nanophotonic lithium niobate waveguides
• Self-organized spatiotemporal quasi-phase-matching in microresonators

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Multi-timescale frequency-phase matching for high-yield nonlinear photonics
• Integrated tunable green light source on silicon nitride
• Optical Switching of ${\chi }^{(2)}$ in Diamond Photonics