Broadband second-harmonic generation in thin-film lithium niobate microdisk via cyclic quasi-phase matching

Whispering-gallery-mode[WGM]microresonators can greatly enhance light-matter interaction,making them indispen-sable units for frequency conversion in nonlinear optics.Efficient nonlinear wave mixing in microresonators requires strin-gent simultaneous optical resonance and phase-matching conditions.Thus,it is challenging to achieve efficient frequency conversion over a broad bandwidth.Here,we demonstrate broadband second-harmonic generation[SHG]in the x-cut thin-film lithium niobate[TFLN]microdisk with a quality factor above 107 by applying the cyclic quasi-phase-matching[CQPM]mechanism,which is intrinsically applicable for broadband operation.Broadband SHG of continuous-wave laser with a maxi-mum normalized conversion efficiency of～15％o/mW is achieved with a bandwidth spanning over 100 nm in the telecom-munication band.Furthermore,broadband SHG of femtosecond lasers,supercontinuum lasers,and amplified spontaneous emission in the telecommunication band is also experimentally observed.The work is beneficial for integrated nonlinear photonics devices like frequency converters and optical frequency comb generator based on second-order nonlinearity on the TFLN platform.