Silicon carbide (SiC) exhibits promising material properties for nonlinear integrated optics. We report on a SiC-on-insulator platform based on crystalline 4H-SiC and demonstrate high-confinement SiC microring resonators with sub-micron waveguide cross-sectional dimensions. The Q factor of SiC microring resonators in such a sub-micron waveguide dimension is improved by a factor of six after surface roughness reduction by applying a wet oxidation process. We achieve a high Q factor (73,000) for such devices and show engineerable dispersion from normal to anomalous dispersion by controlling the waveguide cross-sectional dimension, which paves the way toward nonlinear applications in SiC microring resonators.
Highly stable laser sources based on narrow atomic transitions provide a promising platform for direct generation of stable and accurate optical frequencies. Here we investigate a simple system operating in the high-temperature regime of cold atoms. The interaction between a thermal ensemble of 88 Sr at mK temperatures and a medium-finesse cavity produces strong collective coupling and facilitates high atomic coherence which causes lasing on the dipole forbidden 1 S0 ↔ 3 P1 transition. We experimentally and theoretically characterize the lasing threshold and evolution of such a system, and investigate decoherence effects in an unconfined ensemble. We model the system using a Tavis-Cummings model, and characterize velocity-dependent dynamics of the atoms as well as the dependency on the cavity-detuning.
We present an extended model for the lattice-induced light shifts of the clock frequency in optical lattice clocks, applicable to a wide range of operating conditions. The model extensions cover radial motional states with sufficient energies to invalidate the harmonic approximation of the confining potential. We re-evaluate lattice-induced light shifts in our Yb optical lattice clock with an uncertainty of 6.1 × 10 −18 under typical clock operating conditions.
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