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 …

Advances in on-chip photonic devices based on lithium niobate on insulator

J Lin, F Bo, Y Cheng, J Xu - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Crystalline lithium niobate (LN) is an important optical material because of its broad
transmission window that spans from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and its large nonlinear and …

Ultrabroadband nonlinear optics in nanophotonic periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides

M Jankowski, C Langrock, B Desiatov, A Marandi… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quasi-phase-matched interactions in waveguides with quadratic nonlinearities enable
highly efficient nonlinear frequency conversion. In this paper, we demonstrate the first …

Raman lasing and soliton mode-locking in lithium niobate microresonators

M Yu, Y Okawachi, R Cheng, C Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
The recent advancement in lithium-niobite-on-insulator (LNOI) technology is opening up
new opportunities in optoelectronics, as devices with better performance, lower power …

Chip-based self-referencing using integrated lithium niobate waveguides

Y Okawachi, M Yu, B Desiatov, BY Kim, T Hansson… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The measurement and stabilization of the carrier–envelope offset frequency f_CEO via self-
referencing is paramount for optical frequency comb generation, which has revolutionized …

[HTML][HTML] Lithium-niobate-on-insulator waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

AA Sayem, R Cheng, S Wang, HX Tang - Applied Physics Letters, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
on thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO 3, LN). Using a 250 μm-long NbN superconducting …

Octave-spanning coherent supercontinuum generation in an AlGaAs-on-insulator waveguide

B Kuyken, M Billet, F Leo, K Yvind, M Pu - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate supercontinuum generation over an octave spaning from 1055 to 2155 nm
on the highly nonlinear aluminum gallium arsenide (AlGaAs)-on-insulator platform. This is …

Efficient and highly tunable second-harmonic generation in Z-cut periodically poled lithium niobate nanowaveguides

JY Chen, C Tang, ZH Ma, Z Li, Y Meng Sua… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Thin-film lithium-niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) has emerged as a superior integrated-
photonics platform for linear, nonlinear, and electro-optics. Here we combine quasi-phase …

Ultraviolet to mid-infrared supercontinuum generation in single-crystalline aluminum nitride waveguides

J Lu, X Liu, AW Bruch, L Zhang, J Wang, J Yan… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate ultrabroadband supercontinuum generation from ultraviolet to mid-infrared
wavelengths in single-crystalline aluminum nitride waveguides. Tunable dispersive waves …

Supercontinuum generation assisted by wave trapping in dispersion-managed integrated silicon waveguides

J Wei, C Ciret, M Billet, F Leo, B Kuyken, SP Gorza - Physical Review Applied, 2020 - APS
Compact chip-scale comb sources are of significant interest for many practical applications.
Here, we experimentally study the generation of supercontinuum (SC) in an axially varying …