Recent development in integrated Lithium niobate photonics

Z Xie, F Bo, J Lin, H Hu, X Cai, XH Tian… - … in Physics: X, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The lithium niobate on insulator devices confine the light field to submicron size in
monocrystalline lithium niobate, to achieve ultra-strong electro-optical interaction and …

Integrated frequency-modulated optical parametric oscillator

HS Stokowski, DJ Dean, AY Hwang, T Park, OT Celik… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs have revolutionized precision measurement, time-keeping and
molecular spectroscopy,,,,,–. A substantial effort has developed around 'microcombs' …

Dual-polarization RF channelizer based on microcombs

W Han, Z Liu, Y Xu, M Tan, Y Li, X Zhu, Y Ou, F Yin… - Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We report a dual-polarization radio frequency (RF) channelizer based on microcombs. Two
high-Q micro-ring resonators (MRRs) with slightly different free spectral ranges (FSRs) are …

A fully hybrid integrated Erbium-based laser

Y Liu, Z Qiu, X Ji, A Bancora, G Lihachev… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Erbium-doped fibre lasers exhibit high coherence and low noise as required for fibre-optic
sensing, gyroscopes, LiDAR and optical frequency metrology. Endowing erbium-based gain …

Integrated microcavity electric field sensors using Pound-Drever-Hall detection

X Ma, Z Cai, C Zhuang, X Liu, Z Zhang, K Liu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Discerning weak electric fields has important implications for cosmology, quantum
technology, and identifying power system failures. Photonic integration of electric field …

Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate

Y Hu, D Zhu, S Lu, X Zhu, Y Song, D Renaud… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Electro-optics serves as the crucial bridge between electronics and photonics, unlocking a
wide array of applications ranging from communications and computing to sensing and …

Electrically empowered microcomb laser

J Ling, Z Gao, S Xue, Q Hu, M Li, K Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Optical microcomb underpins a wide range of applications from communication, metrology,
to sensing. Although extensively explored in recent years, challenges remain in key aspects …

Anisotropy-free arrayed waveguide gratings on X-cut thin film lithium niobate platform of in-plane anisotropy

J Yi, C Guo, Z Ruan, G Chen, H Wei, L Lu… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Arrayed waveguide grating is a versatile and scalable integrated light dispersion device,
which has been widely adopted in various applications, including, optical communications …

Micro-transfer-printed InP-based membrane photonic devices on thin-film lithium niobate platform

Y Maeda, H Nishi, NP Diamantopoulos… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate a heterogeneous integration of electrically-pumped membrane lasers and
semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) on a thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform by a …

Lithium niobate on insulator–fundamental opto-electronic properties and photonic device prospects

B You, S Yuan, Y Tian, H Zhang, X Zhu… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) combines a variety of optoelectronic properties and can
meet practical performance requirements that are uncommon in optoelectronic materials …