Cavity electro-optics in thin-film lithium niobate for efficient microwave-to-optical transduction

J Holzgrafe, N Sinclair, D Zhu, A Shams-Ansari… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Linking superconducting quantum devices to optical fibers via microwave-optical quantum
transducers may enable large-scale quantum networks. For this application, transducers …

Microwave-to-optical conversion using lithium niobate thin-film acoustic resonators

L Shao, M Yu, S Maity, N Sinclair, L Zheng, C Chia… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Acoustic or mechanical resonators have emerged as a promising means to mediate efficient
microwave-to-optical conversion. Here, we demonstrate conversion of microwaves up to 4.5 …

Cryogenic microwave-to-optical conversion using a triply resonant lithium-niobate-on-sapphire transducer

TP McKenna, JD Witmer, RN Patel, W Jiang… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quantum networks are likely to have a profound impact on the way we compute and
communicate in the future. In order to wire together superconducting quantum processors …

Thin film lithium niobate electro-optic modulator with terahertz operating bandwidth

AJ Mercante, S Shi, P Yao, L Xie, RM Weikle… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a thin film crystal ion sliced (CIS) LiNbO_3 phase modulator that demonstrates
an unprecedented measured electro-optic (EO) response up to 500 GHz. Shallow rib …

Acousto-optical modulation of thin film lithium niobate waveguide devices

L Cai, A Mahmoud, M Khan, M Mahmoud… - Photonics …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Due to its strong piezoelectric effect and photo-elastic property, lithium niobate is widely
used for acousto-optical applications. However, conventional bulk lithium niobate …

High-efficiency thin-film lithium niobate modulator with highly confined optical modes

N Chen, Y Yu, K Lou, Q Mi, T Chu - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a low-loss, high-efficiency lithium niobate electro-optic (EO) modulator with
optical isolation trenches to achieve stronger field confinement and reduced light absorption …

Efficient quantum microwave-to-optical conversion using electro-optic nanophotonic coupled resonators

M Soltani, M Zhang, C Ryan, GJ Ribeill, C Wang… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We propose a low-noise, triply resonant, electro-optic (EO) scheme for quantum microwave-
to-optical conversion based on coupled nanophotonics resonators integrated with a …

Breaking voltage–bandwidth limits in integrated lithium niobate modulators using micro-structured electrodes

P Kharel, C Reimer, K Luke, L He, M Zhang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators with low voltages and large bandwidths are crucial for both analog
and digital communication. Recently, thin-film lithium niobate modulators have emerged as …

A high-gain cladded waveguide amplifier on erbium doped thin-film lithium niobate fabricated using photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching

Y Liang, J Zhou, Z Liu, H Zhang, Z Fang, Y Zhou… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
Erbium doped integrated waveguide amplifier and laser prevail in power consumption,
footprint, stability and scalability over the counterparts in bulk materials, underpinning the …

Ultra-high-linearity integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators

H Feng, K Zhang, W Sun, Y Ren, Y Zhang… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Integrated lithium niobate (LN) photonics is a promising platform for future chip-scale
microwave photonics systems owing to its unique electro-optic properties, low optical loss …