Unlocking the full potential of integrated photonics requires versatile,multi-functional devices that can adapt to diverse application demands.However,confronting this challenge with conventional singlefunction resona...Unlocking the full potential of integrated photonics requires versatile,multi-functional devices that can adapt to diverse application demands.However,confronting this challenge with conventional singlefunction resonators often results in cumbersome system designs.We present an elegant solution:a versatile and reconfigurable dual-polarization Si_(3)N_(4)microresonator that represents a new perspective in on-chip photonic designs.Our device can be dynamically reconfigured into three distinct topologies:a Möbius-like microcavity,a Fabry-Pérot resonator,and a microring resonator.This unprecedented functionality is enabled by a tunable balanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer that facilitates controllable mutual mode coupling of counterpropagating light using a single control knob.We experimentally demonstrate that the device not only supports polarization-diverse operation on a compact footprint but also gives rise to a wide variety of physical phenomena,including a standing wave cavity,a traveling wave cavity,free spectral range multiplication,and the photonic pinning effect.These behaviors are accurately modeled using the transfer matrix method and intuitively explained by the temporal coupled-mode theory.Our results underscore the potential for a chip-scale platform to realize reconfigurable reconstructive spectrometers and on-chip synthetic dimensions for topological physics.展开更多
We propose a scheme to achieve nonreciprocal single-photon transmission in a system consisting of a spinning whispering-gallery-mode resonator and a stationary resonator containing a scatterer,both coupled to a one-di...We propose a scheme to achieve nonreciprocal single-photon transmission in a system consisting of a spinning whispering-gallery-mode resonator and a stationary resonator containing a scatterer,both coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide.By tuning the Sagnac-Fizeau shift induced by the spinning resonator,high-contrast nonreciprocal transmission in both forward and backward directions can be realized.Furthermore,we investigate the influences of system parameters including waveguide-resonator coupling strength,inter-mode coupling strengths within two resonators,and inter-cavity coupling strength on nonreciprocal transmissions.The results indicate that the synergistic regulation of these parameters can adjust the position of the nonreciprocal transmission peak and achieve high-contrast nonreciprocal transmission.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62105061,12374301,and 62225404)the Jiangsu Provincial Frontier Technology Research and Development Program(Grant No.BF2024070)+1 种基金the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2024YFA1210500)the Key Lab of Modern Optical Technologies of Education,Ministry of China,Soochow University。
文摘Unlocking the full potential of integrated photonics requires versatile,multi-functional devices that can adapt to diverse application demands.However,confronting this challenge with conventional singlefunction resonators often results in cumbersome system designs.We present an elegant solution:a versatile and reconfigurable dual-polarization Si_(3)N_(4)microresonator that represents a new perspective in on-chip photonic designs.Our device can be dynamically reconfigured into three distinct topologies:a Möbius-like microcavity,a Fabry-Pérot resonator,and a microring resonator.This unprecedented functionality is enabled by a tunable balanced Mach-Zehnder interferometer that facilitates controllable mutual mode coupling of counterpropagating light using a single control knob.We experimentally demonstrate that the device not only supports polarization-diverse operation on a compact footprint but also gives rise to a wide variety of physical phenomena,including a standing wave cavity,a traveling wave cavity,free spectral range multiplication,and the photonic pinning effect.These behaviors are accurately modeled using the transfer matrix method and intuitively explained by the temporal coupled-mode theory.Our results underscore the potential for a chip-scale platform to realize reconfigurable reconstructive spectrometers and on-chip synthetic dimensions for topological physics.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12064045)。
文摘We propose a scheme to achieve nonreciprocal single-photon transmission in a system consisting of a spinning whispering-gallery-mode resonator and a stationary resonator containing a scatterer,both coupled to a one-dimensional waveguide.By tuning the Sagnac-Fizeau shift induced by the spinning resonator,high-contrast nonreciprocal transmission in both forward and backward directions can be realized.Furthermore,we investigate the influences of system parameters including waveguide-resonator coupling strength,inter-mode coupling strengths within two resonators,and inter-cavity coupling strength on nonreciprocal transmissions.The results indicate that the synergistic regulation of these parameters can adjust the position of the nonreciprocal transmission peak and achieve high-contrast nonreciprocal transmission.
