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Reduced Dimensionality Lithium Niobate Microsystems

Eichenfield, Matthew S.

The following report describes work performed under the LDRD program at Sandia National Laboratories October 2014 and September 2016. The work presented demonstrates the ability of Sandia Labs to develop state-of-the-art photonic devices based on thin film lithium niobate (LiNbO3 ). Section 1 provides an introduction to integrated LiNbO3 devices and motivation for developing thin film nonlinear optical systems. Section 2 describes the design, fabrication, and photonic performance of thin film optical microdisks fabricated from bulk LiNbO3 using a bulk implantation method developed at Sandia. Sections 3 and 4 describe the development of similar thin film LiNbO3 structures fabricated from LiNbO3 on insulator (LNOI) substrates and our demonstration of optical frequency conversion with state-of-the-art efficiency. Finally, Section 5 describes similar microdisk resonators fabricated from LNOI wafers with a buried metal layer, in which we demonstrate electro-optic modulation.

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Entangled photon generation in lithium niobate microdisk resonators through spontaneous parametric down conversion

2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2016

Frank, Ian W.; Moore, Jeremy M.; Douglas, James K.; Camacho, Ryan C.; Eichenfield, Matthew S.

Dispersion engineering enables phase matching for nonlinear down conversion from 775nm to the telecom c-band in lithium niobite microdisk resonators without periodic poling. High rates of spontaneous creation of entangled photon pairs is observed.

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Efficient second harmonic generation in lithium niobate on insulator

2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2016

Moore, Jeremy M.; Douglas, James K.; Frank, Ian W.; Friedmann, Thomas A.; Camacho, Ryan C.; Eichenfield, Matthew S.

We demonstrate doubly resonant second harmonic generation from 1550 to 775 nm in microdisks fabricated from lithium niobate on insulator wafers. We use a novel phase matching technique to achieve a conversion efficiency of 0.167%/mW.

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Development of MEMS photoacoustic spectroscopy

Eichenfield, Matthew S.; Givler, R.C.; Pfeifer, Kent B.; Reinke, Charles M.; Robinson, Alex L.; Resnick, Paul J.; Griffin, Benjamin G.; Langlois, Eric L.; Nielson, Gregory N.; Okandan, Murat O.

After years in the field, many materials suffer degradation, off-gassing, and chemical changes causing build-up of measurable chemical atmospheres. Stand-alone embedded chemical sensors are typically limited in specificity, require electrical lines, and/or calibration drift makes data reliability questionable. Along with size, these "Achilles' heels" have prevented incorporation of gas sensing into sealed, hazardous locations which would highly benefit from in-situ analysis. We report on development of an all-optical, mid-IR, fiber-optic based MEMS Photoacoustic Spectroscopy solution to address these limitations. Concurrent modeling and computational simulation are used to guide hardware design and implementation.

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