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 …

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 …

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 …

Toward 1% single-photon anharmonicity with periodically poled lithium niobate microring resonators

J Lu, M Li, CL Zou, A Al Sayem, HX Tang - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The absence of the single-photon nonlinearity has been a major roadblock in developing
quantum photonic circuits at optical frequencies. In this paper, we demonstrate a periodically …

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 …

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 …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Ultrabroadband nonlinear optics in nanophotonic periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides

M Jankowski, C Langrock, B Desiatov, A Marandi… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Quasi-phase-matched interactions in waveguides with quadratic nonlinearities enable
highly efficient nonlinear frequency conversion. In this paper, we demonstrate the first …

Ultralow-threshold thin-film lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator

J Lu, A Al Sayem, Z Gong, JB Surya, CL Zou, HX Tang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Materials with strong second-order (χ^(2)) optical nonlinearity, especially lithium niobate,
play a critical role in building optical parametric oscillators (OPOs). However, chip-scale …

Ultrabright multiplexed energy-time-entangled photon generation from lithium niobate on insulator chip

GT Xue, YF Niu, X Liu, JC Duan, W Chen, Y Pan… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
A high-flux entangled-photon source is a key resource for quantum optical study and
application. Here, it is realized in a lithium niobate on isolator (LNOI) chip, with 2.79× 10 11 …