Simplified Aluminum Nitride Processing for Low-Loss Integrated Photonics and Nonlinear Optics
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| author | Yan, Haochen Zhang, Shuangyou Pal, Arghadeep Gosh, Alekhya Alabbadi, Abdullah Kheyri, Masoud Bi, Toby Zhang, Yaojing Harder, Irina Lohse, Olga Gannott, Florentina Gumann, Alexander Butzen, Eduard Ludwig, Katrin DelHaye, Pascal |
| author_facet | Yan, Haochen Zhang, Shuangyou Pal, Arghadeep Gosh, Alekhya Alabbadi, Abdullah Kheyri, Masoud Bi, Toby Zhang, Yaojing Harder, Irina Lohse, Olga Gannott, Florentina Gumann, Alexander Butzen, Eduard Ludwig, Katrin DelHaye, Pascal |
| contents | Aluminum nitride (AlN) is an extremely promising material for integrated photonics because of the combination of strong \c{hi}2 and \c{hi}3 nonlinearities. However, the intrinsic hardness of the material and charging effects during electron beam lithography make AlN nanofabrication a challenging process. Conventional approaches often require multiple hard masks and a metal mask to fabricate nanostructures. In this letter, we report a novel, simple method to fabricate AlN microresonators by using a single layer of silicon nitride mask combined with a thin conductive polymer layer. The conductive layer can be conveniently removed during developing without requiring an additional etching step. We achieve high intrinsic quality (Q) factors up to one million in AlN microresonators and demonstrate several nonlinear phenomena within our devices, including frequency comb generation, Raman lasing, third harmonic generation and supercontinuum generation. |
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| spellingShingle | Simplified Aluminum Nitride Processing for Low-Loss Integrated Photonics and Nonlinear Optics Yan, Haochen Zhang, Shuangyou Pal, Arghadeep Gosh, Alekhya Alabbadi, Abdullah Kheyri, Masoud Bi, Toby Zhang, Yaojing Harder, Irina Lohse, Olga Gannott, Florentina Gumann, Alexander Butzen, Eduard Ludwig, Katrin DelHaye, Pascal Optics Applied Physics Aluminum nitride (AlN) is an extremely promising material for integrated photonics because of the combination of strong \c{hi}2 and \c{hi}3 nonlinearities. However, the intrinsic hardness of the material and charging effects during electron beam lithography make AlN nanofabrication a challenging process. Conventional approaches often require multiple hard masks and a metal mask to fabricate nanostructures. In this letter, we report a novel, simple method to fabricate AlN microresonators by using a single layer of silicon nitride mask combined with a thin conductive polymer layer. The conductive layer can be conveniently removed during developing without requiring an additional etching step. We achieve high intrinsic quality (Q) factors up to one million in AlN microresonators and demonstrate several nonlinear phenomena within our devices, including frequency comb generation, Raman lasing, third harmonic generation and supercontinuum generation. |
| title | Simplified Aluminum Nitride Processing for Low-Loss Integrated Photonics and Nonlinear Optics |
| topic | Optics Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22595 |