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Nonlinearity- and dispersion- less integrated optical time magnifier based on a high-Q SiN microring resonator

ORCID
0000-0002-0284-9708
Affiliation/Institute
THz-Photonics Group, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Schleinitzstraße 22, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany. arijit.misra@ihf.tu-bs.de.
Misra, Arijit;
ORCID
0000-0003-3300-2312
Affiliation/Institute
THz-Photonics Group, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Schleinitzstraße 22, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany.
Preußler, Stefan;
Affiliation/Institute
State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, China.
Zhou, Linjie;
GND
0000-0001-6853-7128
Affiliation/Institute
THz-Photonics Group, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Schleinitzstraße 22, 38106, Braunschweig, Germany.
Schneider, Thomas

The ability to measure optical signals with fast dynamics is of significant interest in many application fields. Usually, single-shot measurements of non-periodic signals can be enabled by time magnification methods. Like an optical lens in the spatial domain, a time magnifier, or a time lens, stretches a signal in the time domain. This stretched signal can then be further processed with low bandwidth photonics and electronics. For a robust and cost-effective measurement device, integrated solutions would be especially advantageous. Conventional time lenses require dispersion and nonlinear optical effects. Integration of a strong dispersion and nonlinearities is not straightforward on a silicon photonics platform and they might lead to signal distortions. Here we present a time magnifier based on an integrated silicon nitride microring resonator and frequency-time coherence optical sampling, which requires neither a dispersion, nor a nonlinearity. Sampling of signals with up to 100 GHz bandwidth with a stretching factor of more than 100 is achieved using low bandwidth measurement equipment. Nevertheless, with already demonstrated integrated 100 GHz modulators, the method enables the measurement of signals with bandwidths of up to 400 GHz. Since amplitude and phase can be sampled, a combination with the spectrum slicing method might enable integrated, cost-effective, small-footprint analog-to-digital converters, and measurement devices for the characterization of single irregular optical signals with fast dynamics and bandwidths in the THz range.

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