Bidirectional interconversion of microwave and light with thin-film lithium niobate

Y Xu, AA Sayem, L Fan, CL Zou, S Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Superconducting cavity electro-optics presents a promising route to coherently convert
microwave and optical photons and distribute quantum entanglement between …

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 …

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 …

Single-photon detection and cryogenic reconfigurability in lithium niobate nanophotonic circuits

E Lomonte, MA Wolff, F Beutel, S Ferrari… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Lithium-Niobate-On-Insulator (LNOI) is emerging as a promising platform for
integrated quantum photonic technologies because of its high second-order nonlinearity …

High-Q photonic resonators and electro-optic coupling using silicon-on-lithium-niobate

JD Witmer, JA Valery, P Arrangoiz-Arriola… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Future quantum networks, in which superconducting quantum processors are connected via
optical links, will require microwave-to-optical photon converters that preserve …

High-dimensional communication on etchless lithium niobate platform with photonic bound states in the continuum

Z Yu, Y Tong, HK Tsang, X Sun - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Photonic bound states in the continuum (BICs) have been exploited in various systems and
found numerous applications. Here, we investigate high-order BICs and apply BICs on an …

Terahertz waveform synthesis in integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform

A Herter, A Shams-Ansari, FF Settembrini… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bridging the “terahertz gap “relies upon synthesizing arbitrary waveforms in the terahertz
domain enabling applications that require both narrow band sources for sensing and few …

Highly tunable efficient second-harmonic generation in a lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguide

R Luo, Y He, H Liang, M Li, Q Lin - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Highly tunable coherent light generation is crucial for many important photonic applications.
Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a dominant approach for this purpose, which …

High-efficiency second harmonic generation of blue light on thin-film lithium niobate

T Park, HS Stokowski, V Ansari, TP McKenna… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The strength of interactions between photons in a χ^(2) nonlinear optical waveguide
increases at shorter wavelengths. These larger interactions enable coherent spectral …

Quantum frequency conversion and single-photon detection with lithium niobate nanophotonic chips

X Wang, X Jiao, B Wang, Y Liu, XP Xie… - npj Quantum …, 2023 - nature.com
The lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) platform has revolutionized lithium niobate materials,
and a series of quantum photonic chips have exhibited unprecedented performances …