Beyond 100 THz-spanning ultraviolet frequency combs in a non-centrosymmetric crystalline waveguide.

ABSTRACT: Ultraviolet frequency combs enable applications ranging from precision spectroscopy to atomic clocks by addressing electronic transitions of atoms and molecules. Access to ultraviolet light via integrated nonlinear optics is usually hampered by the strong material dispersion and large waveguide attention in ultraviolet regions. Here we demonstrate a simple route to chip-scale ultraviolet comb generators, simultaneously showing a gap-free frequency span of 128 terahertz and high conversion efficiency. This process relies on adiabatic quadratic frequency translation of a near-visible supercontinuum sourced by an ultrafast fiber laser. The simultaneous cubic and quadratic nonlinear processes are implemented in single-crystalline aluminum nitride thin films, where chirp-modulated taper wavegui

SUBMITTER: Liu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6611800 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature