Ultrabroadband milliwatt-level resonant frequency doubling on a chip

Marco Clementi (), Luca Zatti, Ji Zhou, Marco Liscidini and Camille-Sophie Brès
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Marco Clementi: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Luca Zatti: Università di Pavia
Ji Zhou: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Marco Liscidini: Università di Pavia
Camille-Sophie Brès: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Nature Communications, 2025, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract Microresonators are powerful tools to enhance the efficiency of second-order nonlinear optical processes, such as second-harmonic generation, which can coherently bridge octave-spaced spectral bands. However, dispersion constraints such as phase-matching and doubly resonant conditions have so far limited demonstrations to narrowband operation. In this work, we overcome these limitations showing ultrabroadband resonant frequency doubling in a novel integrated device, wherein the resonant enhancement of pump and second harmonic are individually addressed in two distinct and linearly uncoupled microring resonators, each adjusted to target the respective spectral band. The two microresonators are designed and tuned independently, yet share a common interaction region that grants nonlinear coupling over a quasi-phase-matching bandwidth exceeding 200 nm, enabled by the inscription of a photoinduced χ(2) grating. The system allows to not only conveniently disentangle the design parameters of the two microresonators but also to reconfigure the doubly resonant condition electrically, and the phase-matching condition optically. We demonstrate milliwatt-level addressable second-harmonic generation over the entire telecom band and then configure the device to internally generate and upconvert a Kerr frequency comb with bandwidth exceeding 100 nm and upconverted power up to 10 mW.

Date: 2025
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