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 …

Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics

S Shekhar, W Bogaerts, L Chrostowski… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Silicon photonics has developed into a mainstream technology driven by advances in
optical communications. The current generation has led to a proliferation of integrated …

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 …

Titanium: sapphire-on-insulator integrated lasers and amplifiers

J Yang, K Van Gasse, DM Lukin, MA Guidry, GH Ahn… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Titanium: sapphire (Ti: sapphire) lasers have been essential for advancing
fundamental research and technological applications, including the development of the …

Integrated quantum optical phase sensor in thin film lithium niobate

HS Stokowski, TP McKenna, T Park, AY Hwang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The quantum noise of light, attributed to the random arrival time of photons from a coherent
light source, fundamentally limits optical phase sensors. An engineered source of squeezed …

Active mid-infrared ring resonators

D Kazakov, TP Letsou, M Beiser, Y Zhi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
High-quality optical ring resonators can confine light in a small volume and store it for
millions of roundtrips. They have enabled the dramatic size reduction from laboratory scale …

Advances in lithium niobate thin-film lasers and amplifiers: a review

Q Luo, F Bo, Y Kong, G Zhang, J Xu - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) thin film has received much attention as an integrated photonic
platform, due to its rich and great photoelectric characteristics, based on which various …

Mid-infrared spectroscopy with a broadly tunable thin-film lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator

AY Hwang, HS Stokowski, T Park, M Jankowski… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Mid-infrared spectroscopy, an important and widespread technique for sensing molecules,
has encountered barriers stemming from sources either limited in tuning range or …

Integrated frequency-modulated optical parametric oscillator

HS Stokowski, DJ Dean, AY Hwang, T Park, OT Celik… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs have revolutionized precision measurement, time-keeping and
molecular spectroscopy,,,,,–. A substantial effort has developed around 'microcombs' …

Heterogeneous integration of III–V semiconductor lasers on thin-film lithium niobite platform by wafer bonding

X Zhang, X Liu, L Liu, Y Han, H Tan, L Liu, Z Lin… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have emerged as a
promising integrated photonics platform for the optical communication, microwave …