Xianwen Liu
Tsinghua University
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Optics Express | 2017
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Lai Wang; Jian Wang; Yanjun Han; Zhibiao Hao; Hongtao Li; Yi Luo; Jianchang Yan; Tongbo Wei; Yun Zhang; Junxi Wang
We demonstrate aluminum nitride (AlN) on sapphire as a novel platform for integrated optics. High-confinement AlN microring resonators are realized by adopting a partially etched (pedestal) waveguide to relax the required etching selectivity for exact pattern transfer. A wide taper is employed at the chip end facets to ensure a low fiber-to-chip coupling loss of ~2.8 dB/facet for both transverse-electric (TE) and transverse-magnetic (TM) modes. Furthermore, the intrinsic quality factors (Qint) recorded with a high-resolution linewidth measurement are up to ~2.5 and 1.9 million at telecom band for fundamental TE00 and TM00 modes, corresponding to a low intracavity propagation loss of ~0.14 and 0.2 dB/cm as well as high resonant buildup of 473 and 327, respectively. Such high-Q AlN-on-sapphire microresonators are believed to be very promising for on-chip nonlinear optics.
Optics Letters | 2016
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Jian Wang; Lai Wang; Yanjun Han; Zhibiao Hao; Hongtao Li; Yi Luo; Jianchang Yan; Tong bo Wei; Yun Zhang; Junxi Wang
An all-optically tunable microwave photonic phase shifter is demonstrated based on an epitaxial aluminum nitride (AlN) microring with an intrinsic quality factor of 3.2×106. The microring adopts a pedestal structure, which allows overcoupling with 700 nm gap size and facilitates the fabrication process. A phase shift for broadband signals from 4 to 25 GHz is demonstrated by employing the thermo-optic effect and the separate carrier tuning technique. A phase tuning range of 0°-332° is recorded with a 3 dB radio frequency (RF) power variation and 48 mW optical power consumption. In addition, AlN exhibits intrinsic second-order optical nonlinearity. Thus, our work presents a novel platform with a low propagation loss and the capability of electro-optic modulation for applications in integrated microwave photonics.
Applied Physics Letters | 2018
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Lai Wang; Jian Wang; Yanjun Han; Zhibiao Hao; Hongtao Li; Yi Luo; Jianchang Yan; Tongbo Wei; Yun Zhang; Junxi Wang
On-chip frequency upconversion of a near-infrared (NIR) Kerr comb in a χ(2) and χ(3) system provides a convenient route to extending the comb spectra into the visible band. Yet to date, only limited visible or near-visible comb lines have been obtained using this scheme. In this work, we demonstrate the generation of multiple near-visible comb lines based on spectral translation from a broadband NIR Kerr comb. This physical process is implemented in an aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-sapphire microring, where we achieve a wideband frequency upconversion by incorporating the phase-mismatched fundamental and first-order near-visible modes. Upon tuning the pump into the resonance with sufficient power, we attain a broadband NIR Kerr comb and 153 corresponding near-visible comb lines in 720–840 nm with a reasonable efficiency over 4.1 × 10−5%. The wideband frequency upconversion can be adapted to on-chip frequency stabilization of self-referenced microcombs, as required for precision optical clocks and frequency metrology.On-chip frequency upconversion of a near-infrared (NIR) Kerr comb in a χ(2) and χ(3) system provides a convenient route to extending the comb spectra into the visible band. Yet to date, only limited visible or near-visible comb lines have been obtained using this scheme. In this work, we demonstrate the generation of multiple near-visible comb lines based on spectral translation from a broadband NIR Kerr comb. This physical process is implemented in an aluminum nitride (AlN)-on-sapphire microring, where we achieve a wideband frequency upconversion by incorporating the phase-mismatched fundamental and first-order near-visible modes. Upon tuning the pump into the resonance with sufficient power, we attain a broadband NIR Kerr comb and 153 corresponding near-visible comb lines in 720–840 nm with a reasonable efficiency over 4.1 × 10−5%. The wideband frequency upconversion can be adapted to on-chip frequency stabilization of self-referenced microcombs, as required for precision optical clocks and frequency me...
conference on lasers and electro optics | 2016
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Jian Wang; Lai Wang; Yanjun Han; Zhibiao Hao; Hongtao Li; Yi Luo; Jianchang Yan; Tongbo Wei; Yun Zhang; Junxi Wang
A novel optically tunable microwave phase shifter is demonstrated based on high-Q (intrinsic quality factor ~ 3.3×106) epitaxial AlN microring, exhibiting a tuning range of 0-332° and RF-power variation less than 3 dB for a 19 GHz signal.
international conference on optical communications and networks | 2015
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Zhibiao Hao; Yanjun Han; Jian Wang; Lai Wang; Yi Luo
We report thermal properties improvement of aluminum nitride (AlN) microring resonator by adopting epitaxial material and pedestal structure. With optimized inductively coupled plasma (ICP) dry etching using Cl2/BCl3/Ar mixture, pedestal microring resonators have been fabricated on epitaxial AlN. Transmission measurement reveals a loaded quality factor of ~1×104 at under-coupled condition, corresponding to a propagation loss of 27 dB/cm around 1.55 μm. Thermal effect induced resonant peak shift at different coupled powers is 6.3 pm/mW, and optical bistability can be observed at an input power above ~115 mW.
Vacuum | 2015
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Lang Niu; Zhibiao Hao; Yanjun Han; Yi Luo
ACS Photonics | 2018
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Lai Wang; Jian Wang; Yanjun Han; Zhibiao Hao; Hongtao Li; Yi Luo; Jianchang Yan; Tongbo Wei; Yun Zhang; Junxi Wang
Optica | 2017
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Lai Wang; Jian Wang; Yanjun Han; Zhibiao Hao; Hongtao Li; Yi Luo; Jianchang Yan; Tongbo Wei; Yun Zhang; Junxi Wang
arXiv: Optics | 2016
Xianwen Liu; Changzheng Sun; Bing Xiong; Lai Wang; Jian Wang; Yanjun Han; Zhibiao Hao; Hongtao Li; Yi Luo; Jianchang Yan; Tongbo Wei; Yun Zhang; Junxi Wang
Optics Letters | 2018
Zheng Gong; Alexander Bruch; Mohan Shen; Xiang Guo; Hojoong Jung; Linran Fan; Xianwen Liu; Liang Zhang; Junxi Wang; Jinmin Li; Jianchang Yan; Hong X. Tang