Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum

A Boes, L Chang, C Langrock, M Yu, M Zhang, Q Lin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Lithium niobate (LN), first synthesized 70 years ago, has been widely used in diverse
applications ranging from communications to quantum optics. These high-volume …

Advances in lithium niobate thin-film lasers and amplifiers: a review

Q Luo, F Bo, Y Kong, G Zhang, J Xu - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) thin film has received much attention as an integrated photonic
platform, due to its rich and great photoelectric characteristics, based on which various …

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

V Snigirev, A Riedhauser, G Lihachev, M Churaev… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Early works and recent advances in thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator have
enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits,, modulators with improved half-wave voltage …

Sub-1 Volt and high-bandwidth visible to near-infrared electro-optic modulators

D Renaud, DR Assumpcao, G Joe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated electro-optic (EO) modulators are fundamental photonics components with utility
in domains ranging from digital communications to quantum information processing. At …

Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate

M Yu, R Cheng, C Reimer, L He, K Luke, E Puma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical isolators are indispensable components of almost any optical system and are used
to protect a laser from unwanted reflections for phase-stable coherent operation. The …

Integrated passive nonlinear optical isolators

AD White, GH Ahn, KV Gasse, KY Yang, L Chang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fibre and bulk optical isolators are widely used to stabilize laser cavities by preventing
unwanted feedback. However, their integrated counterparts have been slow to be adopted …

Integrated quantum optical phase sensor in thin film lithium niobate

HS Stokowski, TP McKenna, T Park, AY Hwang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The quantum noise of light, attributed to the random arrival time of photons from a coherent
light source, fundamentally limits optical phase sensors. An engineered source of squeezed …

Electro‐optic frequency combs: Theory, characteristics, and applications

R Zhuang, K Ni, G Wu, T Hao, L Lu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are a unique kind of light source, which are represented as
a series of equally spaced coherent spectral lines in the frequency domain. OFCs can …

Mid-infrared spectroscopy with a broadly tunable thin-film lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator

AY Hwang, HS Stokowski, T Park, M Jankowski… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Mid-infrared spectroscopy, an important technique for sensing molecules, has encountered
barriers from sources either limited in tuning range or excessively bulky for widespread use …

Heterogeneous integration of III–V semiconductor lasers on thin-film lithium niobite platform by wafer bonding

X Zhang, X Liu, L Liu, Y Han, H Tan, L Liu, Z Lin… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as a
promising integrated photonics platform for the optical communication, microwave …