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Self-organized spatiotemporal quasi-phase-matching in microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Anton Stroganov, Ozan Yakar, Ji Zhou, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

Quasi-phase-matching (QPM) is a widely adopted technique for mitigating stringent momentum conservation in nonlinear optical processes such as second-harmonic generation (SHG). It effectively compensates for the phase velocity mismatch between optical harm ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Electric-field poling of a silicon nitride microring resonator for linear electro-optic modulation

Camille Sophie Brès, Boris Zabelich, Christian André Clément Lafforgue, Edgars Nitiss

The centrosymmetric structure of stoichiometric silicon nitride inhibits the realization of second-order nonlinear processes in this low-loss, complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor fabrication-compatible platform. Nevertheless, linear electro-optic modul ...

SPIE2024

Spatiotemporal Quasi-Phase-Matching in Microresonators

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Ozan Yakar, Ji Zhou, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

We show how spatiotemporal quasi-phase-matching emerges from all-optical poling of silicon nitride microresonators. Enabled by the coherent photogalvanic effect, the photoinduced χ(2) grating oscillates in space and time, yielding quasi-phase-matched and D ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Silicon nitride electric-field poled microresonator modulator

Camille Sophie Brès, Anton Stroganov, Boris Zabelich, Christian André Clément Lafforgue, Edgars Nitiss

Stoichiometric silicon nitride is a highly regarded platform for its favorable attributes, such as low propagation loss and compatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology, making it a prominent choice for various linear and nonlinear ...

2024

Integrated Backward Second-Harmonic Generation through Optically Induced Quasi-Phase-Matching

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Ozan Yakar, Edgars Nitiss

Quasi-phase-matching for efficient backward second-harmonic generation requires sub-μm poling periods, a nontrivial fabrication feat. For the first time, we report integrated first-order quasiphase-matched backward second-harmonic generation enabled by see ...

2023

A chip-scale second-harmonic source via self-injection-locked all-optical poling

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

Second-harmonic generation allows for coherently bridging distant regions of the optical spectrum, with applications ranging from laser technology to self-referencing of frequency combs. However, accessing the nonlinear response of a medium typically requi ...

2023

Bright and dark Talbot pulse trains on a chip

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Jiaye Wu, Christian André Clément Lafforgue, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

Temporal Talbot effect, the intriguing phenomenon of the self-imaging of optical pulse trains, is extensively investigated using macroscopic components. However, the ability to manipulate pulse trains, either bright or dark, through the Talbot effect on in ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Self-injection Locked Second-Harmonic Generation in Optically Poled Silicon Nitride Microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Junqiu Liu, Edgars Nitiss, Marco Clementi

We present a narrow-linewidth second-harmonic source based on a laser diode injection locked to an optically poled silicon nitride microresonator. The device is a compact, highly-coherent dual-wavelength source, with high conversion efficiency up to 280%/W ...

2023

Tunable photo-induced second-harmonic generation in a mode-engineered silicon nitride microresonator

Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Anton Stroganov, Boris Zabelich, Edgars Nitiss

All-optical poling enables reconfigurable and efficient quasi-phase-matching for second-order parametric frequency conversion in silicon nitride integrated photonics. Here, we report broadly tunable milliwatt-level second-harmonic generation in a small fre ...

2023

Photo-induced cascaded harmonic and comb generation in silicon nitride microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Jianqi Hu, Ozan Yakar, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Jijun He, Edgars Nitiss

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is an ever-maturing integrated platform for nonlinear optics but mostly considered for third-order [chi(3)] nonlinear interactions. Recently, second-order [chi(2)] nonlinearity was introduced into Si3N4 via the photogalvanic effect, ...

2022