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 …

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 …

Few-cycle vacuum squeezing in nanophotonics

R Nehra, R Sekine, L Ledezma, Q Guo, RM Gray… - Science, 2022 - science.org
One of the most fundamental quantum states of light is the squeezed vacuum, in which noise
in one of the quadratures is less than the standard quantum noise limit. In nanophotonics, it …

High-efficiency and broadband on-chip electro-optic frequency comb generators

Y Hu, M Yu, B Buscaino, N Sinclair, D Zhu, R Cheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Developments in integrated photonics have led to stable, compact and broadband comb
generators that support a wide range of applications including communications, ranging …

Quantum optics of soliton microcombs

MA Guidry, DM Lukin, KY Yang, R Trivedi… - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Soliton microcombs—phase-locked microcavity frequency combs—have become the
foundation of several classical technologies in integrated photonics, including spectroscopy …

Spectral control of nonclassical light pulses using an integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator

D Zhu, C Chen, M Yu, L Shao, Y Hu, CJ Xin… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Manipulating the frequency and bandwidth of nonclassical light is essential for implementing
frequency-encoded/multiplexed quantum computation, communication, and networking …

Creating boundaries along a synthetic frequency dimension

A Dutt, L Yuan, KY Yang, K Wang, S Buddhiraju… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Synthetic dimensions have garnered widespread interest for implementing high dimensional
classical and quantum dynamics on low-dimensional geometries. Synthetic frequency …

Ultra-high-linearity integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators

H Feng, K Zhang, W Sun, Y Ren, Y Zhang… - Photonics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Integrated lithium niobate (LN) photonics is a promising platform for future chip-scale
microwave photonics systems owing to its unique electro-optic properties, low optical loss …

Time and frequency as quantum continuous variables

N Fabre, A Keller, P Milman - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We present a second quantization description of frequency-based continuous variables
quantum computation in the subspace of single photons. For this, we define frequency and …

Mirror-induced reflection in the frequency domain

Y Hu, M Yu, N Sinclair, D Zhu, R Cheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mirrors are ubiquitous in optics and are used to control the propagation of optical signals in
space. Here we propose and demonstrate frequency domain mirrors that provide reflections …