Passive harmonic mode-locked laser on lithium niobate integrated photonics
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| author | Wang, Yu Han, Guanyu Koester, Jan-Philipp Wenzel, Hans Wang, Wei Deng, Wenjun Feng, Ziyao Tian, Meng Alù, Andrea Knigge, Andrea Guo, Qiushi |
| author_facet | Wang, Yu Han, Guanyu Koester, Jan-Philipp Wenzel, Hans Wang, Wei Deng, Wenjun Feng, Ziyao Tian, Meng Alù, Andrea Knigge, Andrea Guo, Qiushi |
| contents | Mode-locked lasers (MLLs) are essential for a wide range of photonic applications, such as frequency metrology, biological imaging, and high-bandwidth coherent communications. The growing demand for compact and scalable photonic systems is driving the development of MLLs on various integrated photonics material platforms. Along these lines, developing MLLs on the emerging thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform holds the promise to greatly broaden the application space of MLLs by harnessing TFLN 's unique electro-optic (E-O) response and quadratic optical nonlinearity. Here, we demonstrate the first electrically pumped, self-starting passive MLL in lithium niobate integrated photonics based on its hybrid integration with a GaAs quantum-well gain medium and saturable absorber. Our demonstrated MLL generates 4.3-ps optical pulses centered around 1060 nm with on-chip peak power exceeding 44 mW. The pulse duration can be further compressed to 1.75 ps via linear dispersion compensation. Remarkably, passive mode-locking occurs exclusively at the second harmonic of the cavity free spectral range, exhibiting a high pulse repetition rate $\sim$20 GHz. We elucidate the temporal dynamics underlying this self-starting passive harmonic mode-locking behavior using a traveling-wave model. Our work offers new insights into the realization of compact, high-repetition-rate MLLs in the TFLN platform, with promising applications for monolithic ultrafast microwave waveform sampling and analog-to-digital conversion. |
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| spellingShingle | Passive harmonic mode-locked laser on lithium niobate integrated photonics Wang, Yu Han, Guanyu Koester, Jan-Philipp Wenzel, Hans Wang, Wei Deng, Wenjun Feng, Ziyao Tian, Meng Alù, Andrea Knigge, Andrea Guo, Qiushi Optics Mode-locked lasers (MLLs) are essential for a wide range of photonic applications, such as frequency metrology, biological imaging, and high-bandwidth coherent communications. The growing demand for compact and scalable photonic systems is driving the development of MLLs on various integrated photonics material platforms. Along these lines, developing MLLs on the emerging thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform holds the promise to greatly broaden the application space of MLLs by harnessing TFLN 's unique electro-optic (E-O) response and quadratic optical nonlinearity. Here, we demonstrate the first electrically pumped, self-starting passive MLL in lithium niobate integrated photonics based on its hybrid integration with a GaAs quantum-well gain medium and saturable absorber. Our demonstrated MLL generates 4.3-ps optical pulses centered around 1060 nm with on-chip peak power exceeding 44 mW. The pulse duration can be further compressed to 1.75 ps via linear dispersion compensation. Remarkably, passive mode-locking occurs exclusively at the second harmonic of the cavity free spectral range, exhibiting a high pulse repetition rate $\sim$20 GHz. We elucidate the temporal dynamics underlying this self-starting passive harmonic mode-locking behavior using a traveling-wave model. Our work offers new insights into the realization of compact, high-repetition-rate MLLs in the TFLN platform, with promising applications for monolithic ultrafast microwave waveform sampling and analog-to-digital conversion. |
| title | Passive harmonic mode-locked laser on lithium niobate integrated photonics |
| topic | Optics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03522 |