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 …

Status and potential of lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) for photonic integrated circuits

A Boes, B Corcoran, L Chang… - Laser & Photonics …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) technology is revolutionizing the lithium niobate industry,
enabling higher performance, lower cost and entirely new devices and applications. The …

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

Self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb

Y He, QF Yang, J Ling, R Luo, H Liang, M Li, B Shen… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The wide range of functions that are possible with lithium niobate (LN) waveguide devices,
including phase and intensity modulation, second-harmonic generation, and difference …

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 …

Mid-infrared integrated photonics on silicon: a perspective

H Lin, Z Luo, T Gu, LC Kimerling, K Wada… - …, 2017 - degruyter.com
The emergence of silicon photonics over the past two decades has established silicon as a
preferred substrate platform for photonic integration. While most silicon-based photonic …

High-performance silicon photonics using heterogeneous integration

C Xiang, W Jin, D Huang, MA Tran… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The performance of silicon photonic components and integrated circuits has improved
dramatically in recent years. As a key enabler, heterogeneous integration not only provides …

Electro-optic frequency combs

A Parriaux, K Hammani, G Millot - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Frequency combs are optical spectra composed of a set of discrete equally spaced lines.
Such spectra can be generated by diverse sources such as mode-locked lasers, resonators …

Two-dimensional tellurium: progress, challenges, and prospects

Z Shi, R Cao, K Khan, AK Tareen, X Liu, W Liang… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2020 - Springer
Since the successful fabrication of two-dimensional (2D) tellurium (Te) in 2017, its
fascinating properties including a thickness dependence bandgap, environmental stability …

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 …