Visible Brillouin-quadratic microlaser in a high-Q thin-film lithium niobate microdisk
Narrow-linewidth lasers at short/visible wavelengths are crucial for quantum and atomic applications. However, such lasers are often accessible in bulky tabletop systems and remain scarce in on-chip photonic platforms. Here, we report an on-chip visible Brillouin-quadratic microlaser in a 117-μm-diameter thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) microdisk via dispersion engineering. Enabled by the ultra-high optical Q factor of 4.0×10<sup>6</sup>, high optical mode density, small mode volume, strong photon-phonon interaction and high second-order nonlinearity of the TFLN microdisk, simultaneous generation of Stokes Brillouin lasing (SBL) with 10.17 GHz Brillouin shift and its second harmonic generation (SHG) are demonstrated, exhibiting a low threshold of only 1.81 mW. Further measurement confirms the intrinsic narrow-linewidths of both the SBL ( ~ 254 Hz) and the SHG ( ~ 864 Hz) along with a normalized frequency-double efficiency of 3.61%/mW. This demonstration of an on-chip ultra-narrow linewidth bi-chromatic Brillouin laser paves the way for on-chip quantum information processing and precise metrology.
Authors
- Xingzhao Huang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8660-7214)
- Yifei Yao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0660-4158)
- Jintian Lin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3783-7010)
- Huakang Yu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2437-6494)
- Lei Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2184-7190)
- Ya Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8269-5907)
- Yixuan Yang
- Xiaoguang Luo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6813-6981)
- Chuntao Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9262-8265)
- Yingnuo Qiu
- Renhong Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1581-0033)
Institutions
- Shandong University (CN)
- Shanxi University (CN)
- Shandong Normal University (CN)
- Hefei University (CN)
- Shanghai Chengtou (China) (CN)
- Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics (CN)
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials
- East China Normal University (CN)
- South China University of Technology (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2025-11-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-66647-2
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.25