Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

High-performance organic second-and third-order nonlinear optical materials for ultrafast information processing

J Wu, J Luo, AKY Jen - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic nonlinear optical (NLO) materials are very important for high-speed information
processing in addressing the challenges of reduced energy consumption and enhanced …

Continuous wideband microwave-to-optical converter based on room-temperature Rydberg atoms

S Borówka, U Pylypenko, M Mazelanik, M Parniak - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
The coupling of microwave and optical systems presents an immense challenge due to the
natural incompatibility of energies, but potential applications range from optical …

Quantum-enabled operation of a microwave-optical interface

R Sahu, W Hease, A Rueda, G Arnold, L Qiu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Solid-state microwave systems offer strong interactions for fast quantum logic and sensing
but photons at telecom wavelength are the ideal choice for high-density low-loss quantum …

High-efficiency coherent microwave-to-optics conversion via off-resonant scattering

HT Tu, KY Liao, ZX Zhang, XH Liu, SY Zheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Quantum transducers that can convert quantum signals from the microwave to the optical
domain are a crucial optical interface for quantum information technology. Coherent …

Electro‐Optic Activity in Excess of 1000 pm V−1 Achieved via Theory‐Guided Organic Chromophore Design

H Xu, DL Elder, LE Johnson, Y de Coene… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
High performance organic electro‐optic (OEO) materials enable ultrahigh bandwidth, small
footprint, and extremely low drive voltage in silicon‐organic hybrid and plasmonic‐organic …

Optomechanical ground-state cooling in a continuous and efficient electro-optic transducer

BM Brubaker, JM Kindem, MD Urmey, S Mittal… - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
The demonstration of a quantum link between microwave and optical frequencies would be
an important step toward the realization of a quantum network of superconducting …

Cryogenic microwave-to-optical conversion using a triply resonant lithium-niobate-on-sapphire transducer

TP McKenna, JD Witmer, RN Patel, W Jiang… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quantum networks are likely to have a profound impact on the way we compute and
communicate in the future. In order to wire together superconducting quantum processors …

Cavity electro-optics in thin-film lithium niobate for efficient microwave-to-optical transduction

J Holzgrafe, N Sinclair, D Zhu, A Shams-Ansari… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Linking superconducting quantum devices to optical fibers via microwave-optical quantum
transducers may enable large-scale quantum networks. For this application, transducers …

Bidirectional electro-optic wavelength conversion in the quantum ground state

W Hease, A Rueda, R Sahu, M Wulf, G Arnold… - PRX Quantum, 2020 - APS
Microwave photonics lends the advantages of fiber optics to electronic sensing and
communication systems. In contrast to nonlinear optics, electro-optic devices so far require …