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 …

Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link

A Rizzo, A Novick, V Gopal, BY Kim, X Ji, S Daudlin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The growth of computing needs for artificial intelligence and machine learning is critically
challenging data communications in today's data-centre systems. Data movement …

Advances in lithium niobate photonics: development status and perspectives

G Chen, N Li, JD Ng, HL Lin, Y Zhou, YH Fu… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) has experienced significant developments during past decades due to
its versatile properties, especially its large electro-optic (EO) coefficient. For example, bulk …

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 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 …

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 …

On-chip electro-optic frequency shifters and beam splitters

Y Hu, M Yu, D Zhu, N Sinclair, A Shams-Ansari, L Shao… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Efficient frequency shifting and beam splitting are important for a wide range of applications,
including atomic physics,, microwave photonics,,–, optical communication, and photonic …

High‐Q Thin‐Film Lithium Niobate Microrings Fabricated with Wet Etching

R Zhuang, J He, Y Qi, Y Li - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thin‐film lithium niobate (TFLN) has been widely used in electro‐optic modulators, acoustic‐
–optic modulators, electro‐optic frequency combs, and nonlinear wavelength converters …

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 …