Prospects for continuous-wave molecular modulation in Raman-active microresonators

Opt Express. 2019 Nov 11;27(23):34154-34168. doi: 10.1364/OE.27.034154.

Abstract

We propose the extension of existing molecular modulation techniques for continuous-wave optical modulation to Raman-active microresonators. Intense pump and Stokes modes inside a microresonator prepare a high coherence of the Raman transition between two ro-vibrational states. With the coherence prepared, any laser in the optical region can be coupled to the microresonator and be modulated. We perform numerical simulations which predict that these "microresonator-based molecular modulators" could have modulation efficiencies on the order of 1% at 10 THz-scale frequencies for any optical wavelength.