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 …

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‐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 …

Frequency–angular resolving LiDAR using chip-scale acousto-optic beam steering

B Li, Q Lin, M Li - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Thanks to its superior imaging resolution and range, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is
fast becoming an indispensable optical perception technology for intelligent automation …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid and heterogeneous photonic integration

P Kaur, A Boes, G Ren, TG Nguyen, G Roelkens… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Increasing demand for every faster information throughput is driving the emergence of
integrated photonic technology. The traditional silicon platform used for integrated …

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 …

Visible light photonic integrated Brillouin laser

N Chauhan, A Isichenko, K Liu, J Wang, Q Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Narrow linewidth visible light lasers are critical for atomic, molecular and optical (AMO)
physics including atomic clocks, quantum computing, atomic and molecular spectroscopy …

Highly efficient acousto-optic modulation using nonsuspended thin-film lithium niobate-chalcogenide hybrid waveguides

L Wan, Z Yang, W Zhou, M Wen, T Feng… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
A highly efficient on-chip acousto-optic modulator is as a key component and occupies an
exceptional position in microwave-to-optical conversion. Homogeneous thin-film lithium …

Integrated lithium niobate single-mode lasers by the Vernier effect

R Zhang, C Yang, ZZ Hao, D Jia, Q Luo… - Science China Physics …, 2021 - Springer
Microcavity lasers based on erbium-doped lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI), which are
key devices for LNOI integrated photonics, have attracted significant attention recently. In …

Optomechanical ring resonator for efficient microwave-optical frequency conversion

IT Chen, B Li, S Lee, S Chakravarthi, KM Fu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Phonons traveling in solid-state devices are emerging as a universal excitation for coupling
different physical systems. Phonons at microwave frequencies have a similar wavelength to …