Integrated optical frequency comb technologies

L Chang, S Liu, JE Bowers - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs offer an unrivalled degree of frequency measurement precision
that underpins the advance of modern technology in both fundamental science and …

Applications of optical microcombs

Y Sun, J Wu, M Tan, X Xu, Y Li, R Morandotti… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

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 …

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

C Xiang, J Liu, J Guo, L Chang, RN Wang, W Weng… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-
based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser …

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 …

Ion-cut lithium niobate on insulator technology: Recent advances and perspectives

Y Jia, L Wang, F Chen - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3 or LN) is a well-known multifunctional crystal that has been widely
applied in various areas of photonics, electronics, and optoelectronics. In the past …

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 …

Lithium niobate on insulator: an emerging platform for integrated quantum photonics

S Saravi, T Pertsch, F Setzpfandt - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its properties, lithium niobate is one of the most suitable material platforms for the
implementation of integrated optical quantum circuits. With the commercialization of lithium …

Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics

Q Guo, R Sekine, L Ledezma, R Nehra, DJ Dean… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical nonlinear functions are crucial for various applications in integrated photonics,
including all-optical information processing, photonic neural networks, and on-chip ultrafast …

Aluminum nitride nanophotonics for beyond-octave soliton microcomb generation and self-referencing

X Liu, Z Gong, AW Bruch, JB Surya, J Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Frequency microcombs, alternative to mode-locked laser and fiber combs, enable miniature
rulers of light for applications including precision metrology, molecular fingerprinting and …