Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum

A Boes, L Chang, C Langrock, M Yu, M Zhang, Q Lin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Lithium niobate (LN), first synthesized 70 years ago, has been widely used in diverse
applications ranging from communications to quantum optics. These high-volume …

Advances in lithium niobate photonics: development status and perspectives

G Chen, N Li, JD Ng, HL Lin, Y Zhou, YH Fu… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) has experienced significant developments during past decades due to
its versatile properties, especially its large electro-optic (EO) coefficient. For example, bulk …

Quantum-enabled millimetre wave to optical transduction using neutral atoms

A Kumar, A Suleymanzade, M Stone, L Taneja… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Early experiments with transiting circular Rydberg atoms in a superconducting resonator laid
the foundations of modern cavity and circuit quantum electrodynamics, and helped explore …

Microwave-optical quantum frequency conversion

X Han, W Fu, CL Zou, L Jiang, HX Tang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photons at microwave and optical frequencies are principal carriers for quantum information.
While microwave photons can be effectively controlled at the local circuit level, optical …

Continuous wideband microwave-to-optical converter based on room-temperature Rydberg atoms

S Borówka, U Pylypenko, M Mazelanik, M Parniak - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
The coupling of microwave and optical systems presents an immense challenge due to the
natural incompatibility of energies, but potential applications range from optical …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface

R Sahu, W Hease, A Rueda, G Arnold, L Qiu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Solid-state microwave systems offer strong interactions for fast quantum logic and sensing
but photons at telecom wavelength are the ideal choice for high-density low-loss quantum …

Controlling single rare earth ion emission in an electro-optical nanocavity

L Yang, S Wang, M Shen, J Xie, HX Tang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Rare earth emitters enable critical quantum resources including spin qubits, single photon
sources, and quantum memories. Yet, probing of single ions remains challenging due to low …

Adapted poling to break the nonlinear efficiency limit in nanophotonic lithium niobate waveguides

PK Chen, I Briggs, C Cui, L Zhang, M Shah… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nonlinear frequency mixing is a method to extend the wavelength range of optical sources
with applications in quantum information and photonic signal processing. Lithium niobate …

Ultra-low-power second-order nonlinear optics on a chip

TP McKenna, HS Stokowski, V Ansari, J Mishra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Second-order nonlinear optical processes convert light from one wavelength to another and
generate quantum entanglement. Creating chip-scale devices to efficiently control these …