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 …

χ(2) nonlinear photonics in integrated microresonators

P Liu, H Wen, L Ren, L Shi, X Zhang - Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Second-order (χ (2)) optical nonlinearity is one of the most common mechanisms for
modulating and generating coherent light in photonic devices. Due to strong photon …

Self‐Injection locked frequency conversion laser

J Ling, J Staffa, H Wang, B Shen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High‐coherence visible and near‐visible laser sources are centrally important to the
operation of advanced position/navigation/timing systems as well as classical/quantum …

Temporal trapping: a route to strong coupling and deterministic optical quantum computation

R Yanagimoto, E Ng, M Jankowski, H Mabuchi… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The realization of deterministic photon–photon gates is a central goal in optical quantum
computation and engineering. A longstanding challenge is that optical nonlinearities in …

Kerr-induced synchronization of a cavity soliton to an optical reference

G Moille, J Stone, M Chojnacky, R Shrestha, UA Javid… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The phase-coherent frequency division of a stabilized optical reference laser to the
microwave domain is made possible by optical-frequency combs (OFCs),. OFC-based …

Photon conversion and interaction in a quasi-phase-matched microresonator

JY Chen, Z Li, Z Ma, C Tang, H Fan, YM Sua… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The conversion and interaction between quantum signals at the single-photon level are
essential for scalable quantum photonic information technology. Using a fully optimized …

Highly efficient, modal phase-matched second harmonic generation in a double-layered thin film lithium niobate waveguide

H Du, X Zhang, L Wang, F Chen - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
In this contribution, we numerically investigate second harmonic generation in double-
layered lithium niobate on the insulator platform by means of the modal phase matching …

Sum-frequency generation in a high-quality thin film lithium niobate microdisk via cyclic quasi-phase matching

J Zhu, X Sun, T Ding, Y Tang, S Liu, Y Zheng, X Chen - JOSA B, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonators can dramatically boost the interaction
between light and matter, making them an ideal platform for studying nonlinear optics …

[HTML][HTML] E-band widely tunable, narrow linewidth heterogeneous laser on silicon

J Guo, C Xiang, TJ Morin, JD Peters, L Chang… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate a heterogeneously integrated laser on silicon exhibiting a sub-20 kHz
Lorentzian linewidth over a wavelength tuning range of 58 nm from 1350 to 1408 nm, which …

High-efficiency second harmonic generation in a micro-resonator on dual-layered lithium niobate

H Du, X Zhang, H Lv, J Lin, L Wang, F Chen - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
High-quality micro-resonators on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) have emerged as an ideal
platform for on-chip nonlinear optical applications due to their strong light confinement and …