[HTML][HTML] Beyond 100 THz-spanning ultraviolet frequency combs in a non-centrosymmetric crystalline waveguide

X Liu, AW Bruch, J Lu, Z Gong, JB Surya… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Nature communications, 2019nature.com
Ultraviolet frequency combs enable applications ranging from precision spectroscopy to
atomic clocks by addressing electronic transitions of atoms and molecules. Access to
ultraviolet light via integrated nonlinear optics is usually hampered by the strong material
dispersion and large waveguide attention in ultraviolet regions. Here we demonstrate a
simple route to chip-scale ultraviolet comb generators, simultaneously showing a gap-free
frequency span of 128 terahertz and high conversion efficiency. This process relies on …
Abstract
Ultraviolet frequency combs enable applications ranging from precision spectroscopy to atomic clocks by addressing electronic transitions of atoms and molecules. Access to ultraviolet light via integrated nonlinear optics is usually hampered by the strong material dispersion and large waveguide attention in ultraviolet regions. Here we demonstrate a simple route to chip-scale ultraviolet comb generators, simultaneously showing a gap-free frequency span of 128 terahertz and high conversion efficiency. This process relies on adiabatic quadratic frequency translation of a near-visible supercontinuum sourced by an ultrafast fiber laser. The simultaneous cubic and quadratic nonlinear processes are implemented in single-crystalline aluminum nitride thin films, where chirp-modulated taper waveguides are patterned to ensure a broad phase matching. The heterodyne characterization suggests that both the near-visible and ultraviolet supercontinuum combs maintain high coherence. Our approach is also adaptable to other non-centrosymmetric photonic platforms for ultrafast nonlinear optics with scalable bandwidth.
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