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 …

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 …

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 …

Status and potential of lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) for photonic integrated circuits

A Boes, B Corcoran, L Chang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) technology is revolutionizing the lithium niobate industry,
enabling higher performance, lower cost and entirely new devices and applications. The …

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 …

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 …

Integrated Photonics Based on Rare‐Earth Ion‐Doped Thin‐Film Lithium Niobate

Y Jia, J Wu, X Sun, X Yan, R Xie… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rare‐earth (RE) ion doped crystalline materials have a wide spectrum of applications in
lasers, amplifiers, sensors, as well as classical and quantum information processing. The …

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 …

Nanophotonic lithium niobate electro-optic modulators

C Wang, M Zhang, B Stern, M Lipson, M Lončar - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Since the emergence of optical fiber communications, lithium niobate (LN) has been the
material of choice for electro-optic modulators, featuring high data bandwidth and excellent …

Heterogeneous thin-film lithium niobate integrated photonics for electrooptics and nonlinear optics

A Rao, S Fathpour - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ion-sliced thin-film lithium niobate (LN) compact waveguide technology has facilitated the
resurgence of integrated photonics based on the material. The thin-film waveguides offer …