An integrated lithium-niobate electro-optic platform for spectrally tailored dual-comb spectroscopy

Citation:

Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Mengjie Yu, Zaijun Chen, Christian Reimer, Mian Zhang, Nathalie Picqué, and Marko Lončar. 4/12/2022. “An integrated lithium-niobate electro-optic platform for spectrally tailored dual-comb spectroscopy.” Communications Physics, 5, Pp. 88. Publisher's Version
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Abstract:

A high-resolution broad-spectral-bandwidth spectrometer on a chip would create new opportunities for gas-phase molecular fingerprinting, especially in environmental sensing. A resolution high enough to observe transitions at atmospheric pressure and the simultaneous sensitive detection of multiple atoms or molecules are the key challenges. Here, an electro-optic microring-based dualcomb interferometer, fabricated on a low-loss lithium-niobate-on-insulator nanophotonic platform, demonstrates significant progress towards such an achievement. Spectra spanning 1.6 THz (53 cm-1) at a resolution of 10 GHz (0.33 cm-1) are obtained in a single measurement without requiring frequency scanning or moving parts. The frequency agility of the system enables spectrally-tailored multiplexed sensing, which allows for interrogation of non-adjacent spectral regions, here separated by 6.6 THz (220 cm-1), without compromising the signal-to-noise ratio.
Last updated on 04/12/2022