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 …

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 …

Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

Advances in on-chip photonic devices based on lithium niobate on insulator

J Lin, F Bo, Y Cheng, J Xu - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Crystalline lithium niobate (LN) is an important optical material because of its broad
transmission window that spans from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and its large nonlinear and …

Monolithic lithium niobate photonic circuits for Kerr frequency comb generation and modulation

C Wang, M Zhang, M Yu, R Zhu, H Hu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microresonator Kerr frequency combs could provide miniaturised solutions for a wide range
of applications. Many of these applications however require further manipulation of the …

Nanophotonic lithium niobate electro-optic modulators

C Wang, M Zhang, B Stern, M Lipson, M Lončar - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Since the emergence of optical fiber communications, lithium niobate (LN) has been the
material of choice for electro-optic modulators, featuring high data bandwidth and excellent …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, ML Gorodetsky… - Nonlinear optical cavity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …

Periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators with a second-harmonic generation efficiency of 250,000%/W

J Lu, JB Surya, X Liu, AW Bruch, Z Gong, Y Xu… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), dubbed by many as the silicon of photonics, has recently risen to the
forefront of chip-scale nonlinear optics research since its demonstration as an ultralow-loss …

Ultra-low-loss on-chip resonators with sub-milliwatt parametric oscillation threshold

X Ji, FAS Barbosa, SP Roberts, A Dutt, J Cardenas… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
On-chip optical resonators have the promise of revolutionizing numerous fields, including
metrology and sensing; however, their optical losses have always lagged behind those of …

Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications

D Sun, Y Zhang, D Wang, W Song, X Liu… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Recently, integrated photonics has attracted considerable interest owing to its wide
application in optical communication and quantum technologies. Among the numerous …