Photonic van der Waals integration from 2D materials to 3D nanomembranes

Y Meng, J Feng, S Han, Z Xu, W Mao, T Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The integration of functional nanomaterials and heterostructures with photonic architectures
has laid the foundation for important photonic and optoelectronic applications. The advent of …

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 …

High density lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

Z Li, RN Wang, G Lihachev, J Zhang, Z Tan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic integrated circuits have the potential to pervade into multiple applications
traditionally limited to bulk optics. Of particular interest for new applications are ferroelectrics …

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 …

High-performance coherent optical modulators based on thin-film lithium niobate platform

M Xu, M He, H Zhang, J Jian, Y Pan, X Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The coherent transmission technology using digital signal processing and advanced
modulation formats, is bringing networks closer to the theoretical capacity limit of optical …

Taking silicon photonics modulators to a higher performance level: state-of-the-art and a review of new technologies

A Rahim, A Hermans, B Wohlfeil, D Petousi… - Advanced …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical links are moving to higher and higher transmission speeds while shrinking to shorter
and shorter ranges where optical links are envisaged even at the chip scale. The scaling in …

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 …

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators operating at CMOS-compatible voltages

C Wang, M Zhang, X Chen, M Bertrand… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Electro-optic modulators translate high-speed electronic signals into the optical domain and
are critical components in modern telecommunication networks, and microwave-photonic …

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 …