Rejuvenating a versatile photonic material: thin‐film lithium niobate

A Honardoost, K Abdelsalam… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The excellent optical and unique material properties of lithium niobate have long
established it as a prevailing photonic material, especially for the long‐haul telecom …

Silicon photonic platforms for mid-infrared applications

T Hu, B Dong, X Luo, TY Liow, J Song, C Lee… - Photonics …, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Silicon photonic integrated circuits for telecommunication and data centers have been well
studied in the past decade, and now most related efforts have been progressing toward …

Thin film wavelength converters for photonic integrated circuits

L Chang, Y Li, N Volet, L Wang, J Peters, JE Bowers - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Quasi-phase-matched (QPM) wavelength converters are highly desirable for emerging
nonlinear optics applications in photonic integrated circuits, but available waveguide and …

Mid-infrared silicon photonic waveguides and devices

Y Zou, S Chakravarty, CJ Chung, X Xu… - Photonics Research, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Silicon has been the material of choice of the photonics industry over the last decade due to
its easy integration with silicon electronics, high index contrast, small footprint, and low cost …

Compact lithium niobate electrooptic modulators

A Rao, S Fathpour - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lithium niobate (LN), spurred by its success for fiber-optic communications, has remained
the material of choice for high-performance electrooptic (EO) modulators. The past decade …

Heterogeneous integration of lithium niobate and silicon nitride waveguides for wafer-scale photonic integrated circuits on silicon

L Chang, MHP Pfeiffer, N Volet, M Zervas, JD Peters… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
An ideal photonic integrated circuit for nonlinear photonic applications requires high optical
nonlinearities and low loss. This work demonstrates a heterogeneous platform by bonding …

High-quality lithium niobate photonic crystal nanocavities

H Liang, R Luo, Y He, H Jiang, Q Lin - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN) exhibits unique material characteristics that have found many important
applications. Scaling LN devices down to a nanoscopic scale can dramatically enhance light …

Silicon photonic phase shifters and their applications: A review

H Sun, Q Qiao, Q Guan, G Zhou - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
With the development of silicon photonics, dense photonic integrated circuits play a
significant role in applications such as light detection and ranging systems, photonic …

Mid-wave and long-wave infrared transmitters and detectors for optical satellite communications—a review

L Flannigan, L Yoell, C Xu - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
There has been a recent surge in interest for optical satellite communication (SatCom)
utilizing lasers. It is clear to see why, as optical SatCom is capable of higher speed, lighter …

Heterogeneous microring and Mach-Zehnder modulators based on lithium niobate and chalcogenide glasses on silicon

A Rao, A Patil, J Chiles, M Malinowski, S Novak… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Thin films of lithium niobate are wafer bonded onto silicon substrates and rib-loaded with a
chalcogenide glass, Ge_23Sb_7S_70, to demonstrate strongly confined single-mode …