Thin-film lithium-niobate electro-optic platform for spectrally tailored dual-comb spectroscopy

Amirhassan Shams-Ansari; Mengjie Yu; Zaijun Chen; Christian Reimer; Mian Zhang; Nathalie Picqué; Marko Lončar

doi:10.1038/s42005-022-00865-8

Communications Physics (Apr 2022)

Thin-film lithium-niobate electro-optic platform for spectrally tailored dual-comb spectroscopy

Amirhassan Shams-Ansari,
Mengjie Yu,
Zaijun Chen,
Christian Reimer,
Mian Zhang,
Nathalie Picqué,
Marko Lončar

Affiliations

Amirhassan Shams-Ansari: John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Mengjie Yu: John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Zaijun Chen: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Christian Reimer: John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Mian Zhang: John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
Nathalie Picqué: Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Marko Lončar: John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-00865-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Thin-film lithium niobate is a promising photonic platform owing to its strong optical nonlinearity and low losses. Here, the utility of this platform is demonstrated as a tunable dual frequency comb spectrometer based on second-order nonlinearities in a proof-of-principle experiment.

Published in Communications Physics

ISSN: 2399-3650 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Astronomy: Astrophysics; Science: Physics
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsphys/

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