Highly efficient polarization-selective out-coupling of harmonic light in birefringent WGM resonators (Conference Presentation)

Luke S. Trainor; Florian Sedlmeir; Christian Peuntinger; Harald G. L. Schwefel

doi:10.1117/12.2295863

14 March 2018 Highly efficient polarization-selective out-coupling of harmonic light in birefringent WGM resonators (Conference Presentation)

Luke S. Trainor, Florian Sedlmeir, Christian Peuntinger, Harald G. L. Schwefel

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Proceedings Volume 10518, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XX; 105180L (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2295863
Event: SPIE LASE, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

The strong confinement obtained in whispering gallery mode (WGM) resonators is highly conducive to nonlinear effects, due to both resonant enhancement of the fields and a large modal overlap. This confinement can, however, also lead to difficulties; it is difficult to efficiently pump the nonlinear interaction whilst also extracting the signal light, especially when very different wavelengths are involved. The common coupling mechanisms to WGM resonators are all evanescent, and the coupling rates inherit the exponential decay of the evanescent field. The decay length of these fields is proportional to the wavelength, so longer wavelength modes will tend to couple more than their shorter counterparts. Experimentally this hinders efficiency and, by extension, observation of nonlinear processes. Through the use of a birefringent prism, and the different phase-matching conditions it imposes on coupling orthogonally-polarized modes, we can independently control the coupling rates of a pump mode and its second harmonic in an x-cut lithium niobate resonator. We thereby critically couple pump and signal in kind, increasing the process’s efficiency fifteen-fold. This selective coupling can easily be applied to birefringent resonators, where the birefringence is large enough, through use of a prism of the same material. This can also be used with isotropic media, if a suitable birefringent material can be found.

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Luke S. Trainor, Florian Sedlmeir, Christian Peuntinger, and Harald G. L. Schwefel "Highly efficient polarization-selective out-coupling of harmonic light in birefringent WGM resonators (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10518, Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control XX, 105180L (14 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2295863

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Resonators

Prisms

Signal processing

Birefringence

Lithium niobate

Nonlinear dynamics

Nonlinear optics

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