Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

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 …

2022 Roadmap on integrated quantum photonics

G Moody, VJ Sorger, DJ Blumenthal… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrated photonics will play a key role in quantum systems as they grow from few-qubit
prototypes to tens of thousands of qubits. The underlying optical quantum technologies can …

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

Ion-cut lithium niobate on insulator technology: Recent advances and perspectives

Y Jia, L Wang, F Chen - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3 or LN) is a well-known multifunctional crystal that has been widely
applied in various areas of photonics, electronics, and optoelectronics. In the past …

High-speed programmable photonic circuits in a cryogenically compatible, visible–near-infrared 200 mm CMOS architecture

M Dong, G Clark, AJ Leenheer, M Zimmermann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent advances in photonic integrated circuits have enabled a new generation of
programmable Mach–Zehnder meshes (MZMs) realized by using cascaded Mach–Zehnder …

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 …

Toward 1% single-photon anharmonicity with periodically poled lithium niobate microring resonators

J Lu, M Li, CL Zou, A Al Sayem, HX Tang - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The absence of the single-photon nonlinearity has been a major roadblock in developing
quantum photonic circuits at optical frequencies. In this paper, we demonstrate a periodically …

Lithium niobate on insulator: an emerging platform for integrated quantum photonics

S Saravi, T Pertsch, F Setzpfandt - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its properties, lithium niobate is one of the most suitable material platforms for the
implementation of integrated optical quantum circuits. With the commercialization of lithium …