• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 11, Issue 9, 1509 (2023)
Yang Luo1、†, Hongyi Huang1、†, Lei Wan1、2、5、*, Weiping Liu1, and Zhaohui Li3、4、6、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Department of Electronic Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
  • 2International Institute for Innovative Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Tianjin University, Shaoxing 312000, China
  • 3Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Information Processing Chips and Systems, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 4Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519000, China
  • 5e-mail: wanlei@jnu.edu.cn
  • 6e-mail: lzhh88@sysu.edu.cn
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.494008 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yang Luo, Hongyi Huang, Lei Wan, Weiping Liu, Zhaohui Li. Heterogeneous optomechanical crystal cavity coupled by a wavelength-scale mechanical waveguide[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(9): 1509 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Integrated optomechanical crystal (OMC) cavities provide a vital device prototype for highly efficient microwave to optical conversion in quantum information processing. In this work, we propose a novel heterogeneous OMC cavity consisting of a thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) slab and chalcogenide (ChG) photonic crystal nanobeam coupled by a wavelength-scale mechanical waveguide. The optomechanical coupling rate of the heterogeneous OMC cavity is optimized up to 340 kHz at 1.1197 GHz. Combined with phononic band and power decomposition, 17.38% energy from the loaded RF power is converted into dominant fundamental horizontal shear mode (SH0) in the narrow LN mechanical waveguide. Based on this fraction, as a result, 3.51% power relative to the loaded RF energy is scattered into the fundamental longitudinal mode (L0) facing the TFLN-ChG heterogeneous waveguide. The acoustic breathing mode of the heterogeneous OMC is successfully excited under the driving of the propagating L0 mode in the heterogeneous waveguide, demonstrating the great potentials of the heterogeneous piezo-optomechanical transducer in high-performance photon–phonon interaction fields.
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    Yang Luo, Hongyi Huang, Lei Wan, Weiping Liu, Zhaohui Li. Heterogeneous optomechanical crystal cavity coupled by a wavelength-scale mechanical waveguide[J]. Photonics Research, 2023, 11(9): 1509
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