Nonlinear frequency generation is demonstrated in silicon nitride photonics using microring resonators with engineered dispersion through a Bragg grating perturbation. The processes by which these nonlinear effects occur introduces backscattered light, due to bidirectionally-propagating hybridized modes. Such backscattered light is often detrimental to the pump laser and imposes a limit on the power that can be delivered to the ring system, reducing the operating range of ring resonators for nonlinear light generation. We mitigate these effects with an on-chip passive optical isolator, which protects the pump laser from backscattered light, allowing for higher pump power operation regimes. Furthermore, we introduce a recycling channel that allows for power to be re-pumped into the mirroring resonator to enable controllable exploration into more interesting nonlinear optics phenomena.
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are promising materials for nanoscale light emitters. By coupling TMDCs to optical antennas, the spontaneous emission rate can be greatly enhanced, yielding faster device modulation. However, achieving high rate enhancement is difficult with electrically-injected light emitters compared to optical injection. We demonstrate two device designs to overcome these challenges: 1) a light-emitting capacitor (LEC) coupled to a slot antenna array, and 2) a light-emitting diode (LED) coupled to a nanosquare antenna array. The LEC shows high polarization ratios >30x, while the LED shows >10x enhanced electroluminescence for the antenna coupled device relative to control devices.
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