Single Crystalline Aluminum Nitride for Visible Nonlinear Photonics

Speaker: 
Alexander Bruch
Seminar Date: 
Friday, January 26, 2018 - 7:30am
Location: 
BECTON SEMINAR ROOM See map
Prospect Street
New Haven, CT

III-Nitrides have risen as the second most widely used semiconductor, making a phenomenal transition from laboratory discoveries to commodity applications of flat panel displays, Blu-ray DVDs, and solid-state lighting. AlN, in particular, is a unique material for nonlinear optics, possessing a wide bandgap and relatively strong quadratic and cubic optic nonlinearities. The presence of both nonlinear effects allows the production of a broad wavelength spectrum from a single IR pump laser. In this talk I will introduce epitaxial-AlN as a new platform for nonlinear optics, opening applications for optical physics and spectroscopy on a chip scale platform. I will first demonstrate how nonlinear AlN optical resonators facilitate simultaneous second harmonic generation and four wave mixing, enabling frequency comb generation at both IR and near-visible wavelengths. I will then show how this process can be extended across the visible spectrum to calibrate spectrographs for exoplanet research.

Host: 
Corey O'Hern
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