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Tunable gallium nitride-based devices for ultrafast signal processing

State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS ), Xi’an 710119, China

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge 02138, USA

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Yu Wen

National University of Defence Technology, Changsha 410073, China

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Wenqiang Yang

State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS ), Xi’an 710119, China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Zishen Wan

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 02139, USA

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge 02138, USA

E-mail Address: zishenwan@g.harvard.edu

Corresponding author.

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Jiarui Liu

Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China

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Xinyu Wang

State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS ), Xi’an 710119, China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Siqi Da

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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Yishan Wang

State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics (XIOPM ), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS ), Xi’an 710119, China

University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217984919501872Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a micro-ring resonator model based on gallium nitride (GaN) and graphene, which exhibits tunable properties of nonlinearity. It provides a great bandwidth covering from visible to telecommunication band. Especially, based on the characteristic of GaN, it has unique advantages in shorter wavelength, which is used for demonstrating the ultrafast signal processing including wavelength conversion, temporal amplification and pulse compression. Moreover, the tunable signal processing is achieved via the method of applying additional bias voltage to graphene without changing the geometric dimension of the device. These results have significant potential applications of nonlinear optics and optical communications.

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