Spectral-temporal processing using integrated recursive electro-optic circuit
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| author | Li, Xudong Hu, Yaowen Ge, Tong Cordaro, Andrea Song, Yunxiang Zhu, Xinrui Lu, Shengyuan Powell, Keith Magalhães, Letícia Senica, Urban Sinclair, Neil Lončar, Marko |
| author_facet | Li, Xudong Hu, Yaowen Ge, Tong Cordaro, Andrea Song, Yunxiang Zhu, Xinrui Lu, Shengyuan Powell, Keith Magalhães, Letícia Senica, Urban Sinclair, Neil Lončar, Marko |
| contents | Advances in integrated photonics have enabled unprecedented level of control of light, powering a wide range of photonic technologies from communications and computing to precision metrology and quantum information. However, the conventional on-chip optical signal processing approaches based on optical waveguides and cavities suffer from their large physical footprint and narrow operating bandwidth, respectively. To address this, we propose and experimentally demonstrate, using the thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics, a modular, recursive optical signal processing framework. In our approach, fast electro-optic (EO) switch is used to either keep an optical packet inside the loop, with the processing element embedded within, or to release it from the loop and direct it towards the output waveguide. By configuring the switch on a timescale shorter than a time the photon spends traversing the loop, this architecture can achieve different optical pathlengths in a compact footprint without sacrificing optical bandwidth. As an example, we embed a phase-modulator (PM) inside the loop and demonstrate a frequency shift of optical packets up to 420 GHz, using only a 3 GHz sinusoidal microwave signal. By replacing the PM with chirped Bragg gratings (CBG), we demonstrate recursive delay line featuring large group delays of 28 ps/nm over a 30 nm optical bandwidth. Finally, by introducing asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (AMZI) inside the loop, we demonstrate a reconfigurable differentiation of the optical packet in time, up to an unprecedented fifth-order. Our results establish a powerful and scalable platform for multifunctional photonic processing, setting the stage for next-generation integrated systems with ultrahigh reconfigurability and spectral-temporal versatility. |
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| spellingShingle | Spectral-temporal processing using integrated recursive electro-optic circuit Li, Xudong Hu, Yaowen Ge, Tong Cordaro, Andrea Song, Yunxiang Zhu, Xinrui Lu, Shengyuan Powell, Keith Magalhães, Letícia Senica, Urban Sinclair, Neil Lončar, Marko Optics Advances in integrated photonics have enabled unprecedented level of control of light, powering a wide range of photonic technologies from communications and computing to precision metrology and quantum information. However, the conventional on-chip optical signal processing approaches based on optical waveguides and cavities suffer from their large physical footprint and narrow operating bandwidth, respectively. To address this, we propose and experimentally demonstrate, using the thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics, a modular, recursive optical signal processing framework. In our approach, fast electro-optic (EO) switch is used to either keep an optical packet inside the loop, with the processing element embedded within, or to release it from the loop and direct it towards the output waveguide. By configuring the switch on a timescale shorter than a time the photon spends traversing the loop, this architecture can achieve different optical pathlengths in a compact footprint without sacrificing optical bandwidth. As an example, we embed a phase-modulator (PM) inside the loop and demonstrate a frequency shift of optical packets up to 420 GHz, using only a 3 GHz sinusoidal microwave signal. By replacing the PM with chirped Bragg gratings (CBG), we demonstrate recursive delay line featuring large group delays of 28 ps/nm over a 30 nm optical bandwidth. Finally, by introducing asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometer (AMZI) inside the loop, we demonstrate a reconfigurable differentiation of the optical packet in time, up to an unprecedented fifth-order. Our results establish a powerful and scalable platform for multifunctional photonic processing, setting the stage for next-generation integrated systems with ultrahigh reconfigurability and spectral-temporal versatility. |
| title | Spectral-temporal processing using integrated recursive electro-optic circuit |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25102 |