Ultralow-loss spiral resonators for precise LiDAR

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Autores principales: Terra, Osama, Jin, Warren, Kotb, Hussein, Guo, Joel, Bowers, John E.
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Publicado: 2024
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author Terra, Osama
Jin, Warren
Kotb, Hussein
Guo, Joel
Bowers, John E.
author_facet Terra, Osama
Jin, Warren
Kotb, Hussein
Guo, Joel
Bowers, John E.
contents Swept laser interferometry is an extremely powerful solution embedded in several recent technologies such as absolute distance measurement, light detection and ranging, optical frequency domain reflectometry, optical coherence tomography, microresonator characterization, and gas spectroscopy. Nonlinearity in the optical frequency sweeping of tunable lasers is a fatal drawback in gaining the expected outcome from these technologies. Here, we introduce an onchip, millimeter scale, 7 m spiral resonator that is made of ultralow loss silicon nitride to act as a frequency ruler for correction of the tunable lasers sweeping nonlinearities. The sharp 2 MHz frequency lines of the 85 M high-quality resonator and the narrow spaced 25.57 MHz frequency ticks of the 7 m spiral allow unprecedented precise nonlinearity correction on an integrated photonics platform. Accurate measurements of the rulers frequency spacing, linewidth, and temperature and wavelength sensitivities of the frequency ticks are performed here to demonstrate the quality of the frequency ruler. In addition, the spiral resonator is implemented in an FMCW LiDAR experiment to demonstrate a potential application of the proposed onchip frequency ruler.
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spellingShingle Ultralow-loss spiral resonators for precise LiDAR
Terra, Osama
Jin, Warren
Kotb, Hussein
Guo, Joel
Bowers, John E.
Optics
Applied Physics
Swept laser interferometry is an extremely powerful solution embedded in several recent technologies such as absolute distance measurement, light detection and ranging, optical frequency domain reflectometry, optical coherence tomography, microresonator characterization, and gas spectroscopy. Nonlinearity in the optical frequency sweeping of tunable lasers is a fatal drawback in gaining the expected outcome from these technologies. Here, we introduce an onchip, millimeter scale, 7 m spiral resonator that is made of ultralow loss silicon nitride to act as a frequency ruler for correction of the tunable lasers sweeping nonlinearities. The sharp 2 MHz frequency lines of the 85 M high-quality resonator and the narrow spaced 25.57 MHz frequency ticks of the 7 m spiral allow unprecedented precise nonlinearity correction on an integrated photonics platform. Accurate measurements of the rulers frequency spacing, linewidth, and temperature and wavelength sensitivities of the frequency ticks are performed here to demonstrate the quality of the frequency ruler. In addition, the spiral resonator is implemented in an FMCW LiDAR experiment to demonstrate a potential application of the proposed onchip frequency ruler.
title Ultralow-loss spiral resonators for precise LiDAR
topic Optics
Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19360