Controlling Microring Resonator Extinction Ratio via Metal‐Halide Perovskite Nonlinearity

Abstract

The exceptionally high optical nonlinearities, wide bandgap, and homogeneity in solution‐processed metal‐halide perovskite media are utilized as optical nonlinear elements on a silicon photonic platform for low‐power‐active components, such as all‐optical switches, modulators, and lasers. With room temperature back‐end‐of‐line compatible processing, a hybrid metal‐halide perovskite (CH3NH3PbI3) microring resonator (MRR) structure is fabricated on a foundry‐processed low‐loss silicon photonic platform. With in‐plane excitation near the light intensity of 110 W m−2, strong two‐photon absorption and free‐carrier absorption saturation are observed. With 103 field enhancements by MRRs, the photorefractive effect in the metal‐halide perovskite reduces linear absorption, represented by 102 improvement of the MRR's intrinsic quality factor and 20 dB enhancement of the extinction ratio.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Sep 08, 2021
Source ID
10.1002/adom.202100783

Entities

People

  • Anishkumar Soman
  • Barry P Rand
  • Feifan Wang
  • Hwaseob Lee
  • Lianfeng Zhao
  • Thomas Kananen
  • Tiantian Li
  • Tingyi Gu
  • Xiaoyong Hu
  • Yahui Xiao
  • Yixiu Wang

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Army Research Office
  • Peking University
  • Princeton University
  • University of Delaware

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Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Superconducting Magnet Technology

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Lasers
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition