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High-Q photonic crystal Fabry–Pérot micro-resonator in thin-film lithium niobate
- Authors
- Hyeon Hwang, Seokjoo Go, Guhwan Kim, Hong-Seok Kim, Kiwon Moon, Jung Jin Ju, Hansuek Lee, Min-Kyo Seo
- Issue Date
- 2025-12
- Citation
- APL Photonics, v.10, no.12, pp.1-10
- ISSN
- 2378-0967
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a powerful platform for integrated nonlinear and quantum photonics, owing to its strong optical nonlinearities, wide transparency window, and electro- and piezo-optic properties. However, conventional traveling-wave resonators—such as micro-rings, disks, and racetracks—suffer from curvature-dependent group dispersion and losses, limited spectral tunability, and parasitic nonlinearities, which constrain their performance, scalability, and operational stability in nonlinear photonic circuits. Here, we present photonic crystal (PhC) Fabry–Pérot (FP) micro-resonators in TFLN that address these limitations. The device features a one-dimensional straight cavity bounded by PhC reflectors and supports well-confined standing-wave resonant modes within an engineered photonic bandgap. We achieve intrinsic quality (Q) factors of up to 1.4 × 106 and demonstrate that both the free spectral range (FSR) and coupling strength can be consistently controlled via cavity length and PhC coupler design, respectively. The photonic bandgap is tunable across the S-, C-, and L-bands without degradation of resonator performance. Spectral confinement of high-Q resonant modes is expected to mitigate parasitic nonlinearities, such as Raman scattering. These advances, together with the one-dimensional geometry, establish PhC FP micro-resonators as compact and scalable building blocks for high-density photonic integrated circuits targeting next-generation nonlinear and quantum applications.
- KSP Keywords
- Cavity length, Electro-, High Q, High-density, Lithium niobate(LN), Next-generation, Optic property, Optical nonlinearity, Photonic bandgap(PBG), Photonic circuit, Quantum photonics
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