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 …

Applications of thin-film lithium niobate in nonlinear integrated photonics

MG Vazimali, S Fathpour - Advanced Photonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photonics on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as one of the most pursued
disciplines within integrated optics. Ultracompact and low-loss optical waveguides and …

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 …

Efficient second harmonic generation by harnessing bound states in the continuum in semi-nonlinear etchless lithium niobate waveguides

X Li, J Ma, S Liu, P Huang, B Chen, D Wei… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Integrated photonics provides unprecedented opportunities to pursue advanced nonlinear
light sources with low-power consumptions and small footprints in a scalable manner, such …

Intense optical parametric amplification in dispersion-engineered nanophotonic lithium niobate waveguides

L Ledezma, R Sekine, Q Guo, R Nehra, S Jahani… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Strong amplification in integrated photonics is one of the most desired optical functionalities
for computing, communications, sensing, and quantum information processing …

Ultra-low-power second-order nonlinear optics on a chip

TP McKenna, HS Stokowski, V Ansari, J Mishra… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Second-order nonlinear optical processes convert light from one wavelength to another and
generate quantum entanglement. Creating chip-scale devices to efficiently control these …

Optical-parametric oscillation in photonic-crystal ring resonators

JA Black, G Brodnik, H Liu, SP Yu, DR Carlson, J Zang… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
By-design access to laser wavelength, especially with integrated photonics, is critical to
advance quantum sensors, such as optical clocks and quantum-information systems, and …

High-Quality Dry Etching of LiNbO3 Assisted by Proton Substitution through H2-Plasma Surface Treatment

A Aryal, I Stricklin, M Behzadirad, DW Branch… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
The exceptional material properties of Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3) make it an excellent
material platform for a wide range of RF, MEMS, phononic and photonic applications; …

High-efficiency second harmonic generation of blue light on thin-film lithium niobate

T Park, HS Stokowski, V Ansari, TP McKenna… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The strength of interactions between photons in a χ^(2) nonlinear optical waveguide
increases at shorter wavelengths. These larger interactions enable coherent spectral …

Ultra-broadband and low-loss edge coupler for highly efficient second harmonic generation in thin-film lithium niobate

X Liu, S Gao, C Zhang, Y Pan, R Ma… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Thin-film lithium niobate is a promising material platform for integrated nonlinear photonics,
due to its high refractive index contrast with the excellent optical properties. However, the …