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 …

Nonlinear wave mixing in lithium niobate thin film

Y Zheng, X Chen - Advances in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI), by taking advantage of versatile properties of lithium
niobate (LN) and a large refractive index contrast, provides an ideal on-chip platform for …

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 …

Lithium niobate meta-optics

A Fedotova, L Carletti, A Zilli, F Setzpfandt… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The rapid development of optical metasurfaces, 2D ensembles of engineered
nanostructures, is presently underpinning a steady drive toward the miniaturization of many …

Dispersion-engineered nanophotonics: a flexible tool for nonclassical light

M Jankowski, J Mishra, MM Fejer - Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews recent progress in quasi-phasematched $\chi^{(2)} $ nonlinear
nanophotonics, with a particular focus on dispersion-engineered nonlinear interactions …

Domain control and periodic poling of epitaxial ScAlN

F Yang, G Yang, D Wang, P Wang, J Lu, Z Mi… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
ScAlN is an emerging ferroelectric material that possesses large bandgap and strong
piezoelectricity and holds great promises for enhanced χ (2) nonlinearity. In this study, we …

Symmetric second-harmonic generation in sub-wavelength periodically poled thin film lithium niobate

F Yang, J Lu, M Shen, G Yang, HX Tang - Optica, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Second-harmonic generation (SHG) extensively employs periodically poled nonlinear
crystals through forward quasi-phase-matching to achieve efficient frequency conversion. As …

“Seeing is believing”—In-depth analysis by co-imaging of periodically-poled x-cut lithium niobate thin films

S Reitzig, M Rüsing, J Zhao, B Kirbus, S Mookherjea… - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Nonlinear and quantum optical devices based on periodically-poled thin film lithium niobate
(PP-TFLN) have gained considerable interest lately, due to their significantly improved …

Domain dynamics in coercive-field engineered sub-µm periodically poled Rb-doped KTiOPO4

P Mutter, A Zukauskas, C Canalias - Optical Materials Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Nonlinear optical interactions involving counter-propagating photons are of great interest for
both classical and quantum optical applications. However, their use is sparsely spread due …

Roadmap on nonlinear optics–focus on Chinese research

M Ren, J Xu, P Lan, P Lu, ZY Li, LH Hong… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In nonlinear optical systems, the optical superposition principle breaks down. The system's
response (including electric polarization, current density, etc) is not proportional to the …