Electronically programmable photonic molecule

M Zhang, C Wang, Y Hu, A Shams-Ansari, T Ren… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Physical systems with discrete energy levels are ubiquitous in nature and are fundamental
building blocks of quantum technology. Realizing controllable artificial atom-and molecule …

Low-loss fiber-to-chip interface for lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

L He, M Zhang, A Shams-Ansari, R Zhu, C Wang… - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Integrated lithium niobate (LN) photonic circuits have recently emerged as a promising
candidate for advanced photonic functions such as high-speed modulation, nonlinear …

Lithium niobate piezo-optomechanical crystals

W Jiang, RN Patel, FM Mayor, TP McKenna… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Demonstrating a device that efficiently connects light, motion, and microwaves is an
outstanding challenge in classical and quantum photonics. We make significant progress in …

Tunable hybrid silicon nitride and thin-film lithium niobate electro-optic microresonator

ANR Ahmed, S Shi, M Zablocki, P Yao, DW Prather - Optics letters, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This Letter presents, to the best of our knowledge, the first hybrid Si_3N_4-LiNbO_3-based
tunable microring resonator where the waveguide is formed by loading a Si_3N_4 strip on …

Microwave to optical photon conversion via fully concentrated rare-earth-ion crystals

JR Everts, MC Berrington, RL Ahlefeldt, JJ Longdell - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Most investigations of rare-earth ions in solids for quantum information have used crystals
where the rare-earth ion is a dopant. Here, we analyze the conversion of quantum …

High‐Q 2D lithium niobate photonic crystal slab nanoresonators

M Li, H Liang, R Luo, Y He, Q Lin - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium niobate (LN), known as the “silicon of photonics,” exhibits outstanding material
characteristics with great potential for broad applications. Enhancing light–matter interaction …

Quantum communication with time-bin encoded microwave photons

P Kurpiers, M Pechal, B Royer, P Magnard, T Walter… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
Heralding techniques are useful in quantum communication to circumvent losses without
resorting to error-correction schemes or quantum repeaters. Such techniques are realized …

High-performance racetrack resonator in silicon nitride-thin film lithium niobate hybrid platform

ANR Ahmed, S Shi, AJ Mercante, DW Prather - Optics express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we propose an electro-optic modulator design in a hybrid Si_3N_4-X-cut
LiNbO_3. The modulator is based on a modified racetrack resonator and performs at both …

Toward 3D integrated photonics including lithium niobate thin films: a bridge between electronics, radio frequency, and optical technology

M Rusing, PO Weigel, J Zhao… - IEEE Nanotechnology …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lithium Niobate (LN) was the dominant material platform for integrated optics for several
decades, based on its superior electro-optical and nonlinear (NL) optical properties …

Atomically-thin quantum dots integrated with lithium niobate photonic chips

D White, A Branny, RJ Chapman, R Picard… - Optical Materials …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The electro-optic, acousto-optic and nonlinear properties of lithium niobate make it a highly
versatile material platform for integrated quantum photonic circuits. A prerequisite for …