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Single-frequency integrated laser on erbium-doped lithium niobate on insulator

Optics 2021-09-01 v1

Abstract

The erbium-doped Lithium niobate on insulator (Er:LNOI) platform has great promise in the application of telecommunication, microwave photonics, and quantum photonics due to its excellent electro-optic, piezo-electric, nonlinear nature as well as the gain characteristics in the telecommunication C-band. Here, we report a single-frequency Er:LNOI integrated laser based on dual-cavity structure. Facilitated by the Vernier effect and gain competition, the single-frequency laser can operate stably at 1531-nm wavelength with a 1484-nm pump laser. The output laser has a power of 0.31 uW, a linewidth of 1.2 MHz, and a side mode suppression ratio (SMSR) of 31 dB. Our work allows the direct integration of this laser source with existing LNOI components and paves the way for a fully integrated LNOI system.

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@article{arxiv.2106.00195,
  title  = {Single-frequency integrated laser on erbium-doped lithium niobate on insulator},
  author = {Zeyu Xiao and Kan Wu and Minglu Cai and Tieying Li and Jianping Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.00195},
  year   = {2021}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures