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Nonlinear integrated photonics on silicon and gallium arsenide substrates
Title
Nonlinear integrated photonics on silicon and gallium arsenide substrates.
Creator
Ma, Jichi, Fathpour, Sasan, Hagan, David, Li, Guifang, Peale, Robert, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Silicon photonics is nowadays a mature technology and is on the verge of becoming a blossoming industry. Silicon photonics has also been pursued as a platform for integrated nonlinear optics based on Raman and Kerr effects. In recent years, more futuristic directions have been pursued by various groups. For instance, the realm of silicon photonics has been expanded beyond the well-established near-infrared wavelengths and into the mid-infrared (3 (-) 5 (&)#181;m). In this wavelength range,...
Show moreSilicon photonics is nowadays a mature technology and is on the verge of becoming a blossoming industry. Silicon photonics has also been pursued as a platform for integrated nonlinear optics based on Raman and Kerr effects. In recent years, more futuristic directions have been pursued by various groups. For instance, the realm of silicon photonics has been expanded beyond the well-established near-infrared wavelengths and into the mid-infrared (3 (-) 5 (&)#181;m). In this wavelength range, the omnipresent hurdle of nonlinear silicon photonics in the telecommunication band, i.e., nonlinear losses due to two-photon absorption, is inherently nonexistent. With the lack of efficient light-emission capability and second-order optical nonlinearity in silicon, heterogeneous integration with other material systems has been another direction pursued. Finally, several approaches have been proposed and demonstrated to address the energy efficiency of silicon photonic devices in the near-infrared wavelength range. In this dissertation, theoretical and experimental works are conducted to extend applications of integrated photonics into mid-infrared wavelengths based on silicon, demonstrate heterogeneous integration of tantalum pentoxide and lithium niobate photonics on silicon substrates, and study two-photon photovoltaic effect in gallium arsenide and plasmonic-enhanced structures.Specifically, performance and noise properties of nonlinear silicon photonic devices, such as Raman lasers and optical parametric amplifiers, based on novel and reliable waveguide technologies are studied. Both near-infrared and mid-infrared nonlinear silicon devices have been studied for comparison. Novel tantalum-pentoxide- and lithium-niobate-on-silicon platforms are developed for compact microring resonators and Mach-Zehnder modulators. Third- and second-harmonic generations are theoretical studied based on these two platforms, respectively. Also, the two-photon photovoltaic effect is studied in gallium arsenide waveguides for the first time. The effect, which was first demonstrated in silicon, is the nonlinear equivalent of the photovoltaic effect of solar cells and offers a viable solution for achieving energy-efficient photonic devices. The measured power efficiency achieved in gallium arsenide is higher than that in silicon and even higher efficiency is theoretically predicted with optimized designs. Finally, plasmonic-enhanced photovoltaic power converters, based on the two-photon photovoltaic effect in silicon using subwavelength apertures in metallic films, are proposed and theoretically studied.
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Date Issued
2014
Identifier
CFE0005373, ucf:50441
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0005373
Thin-film Lithium Niobate Photonics for Electro-optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quantum Optics on Silicon
Title
Thin-film Lithium Niobate Photonics for Electro-optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quantum Optics on Silicon.
Creator
Rao, Ashutosh, Fathpour, Sasan, Delfyett, Peter, Li, Guifang, Thomas, Jayan, University of Central Florida
Abstract / Description
Ion-sliced thin-film lithium niobate (LN) compact waveguide technology has facilitated the resurgence of integrated photonics based on lithium niobate. These thin-film LN waveguides offer over an order of magnitude improvement in optical confinement, and about two orders of magnitude reduction in waveguide bending radius, compared to conventional LN waveguides. Harnessing the improved confinement, a variety of miniaturized and efficient photonic devices are demonstrated in this work. First,...
Show moreIon-sliced thin-film lithium niobate (LN) compact waveguide technology has facilitated the resurgence of integrated photonics based on lithium niobate. These thin-film LN waveguides offer over an order of magnitude improvement in optical confinement, and about two orders of magnitude reduction in waveguide bending radius, compared to conventional LN waveguides. Harnessing the improved confinement, a variety of miniaturized and efficient photonic devices are demonstrated in this work. First, two types of compact electrooptic modulators are presented (-) microring modulators, and Mach-Zehnder modulators. Next, two distinct approaches to nonlinear optical frequency converters are implemented (-) periodically poled lithium niobate, and mode shape modulation (grating assisted quasi-phase matching). Following this, stochastic variations are added to the mode shape modulation approach to demonstrate random quasi-phase matching. Afterward, broadband photon-pair generation is demonstrated in the miniaturized periodically poled lithium niobate, and spectral correlations of the biphoton spectrum are reported. Finally, extensions of the aforementioned results suitable for future work are discussed.
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Date Issued
2018
Identifier
CFE0007085, ucf:52013
Format
Document (PDF)
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007085