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 …

A power-efficient integrated lithium niobate electro-optic comb generator

K Zhang, W Sun, Y Chen, H Feng, Y Zhang… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated electro-optic (EO) frequency combs are essential components for future
applications in optical communications, light detection and ranging, optical computation …

Spectral control of nonclassical light pulses using an integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator

D Zhu, C Chen, M Yu, L Shao, Y Hu, CJ Xin… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Manipulating the frequency and bandwidth of nonclassical light is essential for implementing
frequency-encoded/multiplexed quantum computation, communication, and networking …

On-chip optical comb sources

A Hermans, K Van Gasse, B Kuyken - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
On-chip integration of optical comb sources is crucial in enabling their widespread use.
Integrated photonic devices that can be mass-manufactured in semiconductor processing …

Zero-added-loss entangled-photon multiplexing for ground-and space-based quantum networks

KC Chen, P Dhara, M Heuck, Y Lee, W Dai, S Guha… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We propose a scheme for optical entanglement distribution in quantum networks based on a
quasideterministic entangled photon-pair source. By combining heralded photonic Bell-pair …

[HTML][HTML] 20 GHz fiber-integrated femtosecond pulse and supercontinuum generation with a resonant electro-optic frequency comb

P Sekhar, C Fredrick, DR Carlson, ZL Newman… - APL Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Frequency combs with mode spacing of 10–20 GHz are critical for increasingly important
applications such as astronomical spectrograph calibration, high-speed dual-comb …

Picosecond-resolution single-photon time lens for temporal mode quantum processing

C Joshi, BM Sparkes, A Farsi, T Gerrits, V Verma… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Techniques to control the spectro-temporal properties of quantum states of light at ultrafast
time scales are crucial for numerous applications in quantum information science. In this …

Spectral Interferometry with Frequency Combs

K Twayana, I Rebolledo-Salgado, E Deriushkina… - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this review paper, we provide an overview of the state of the art in linear interferometric
techniques using laser frequency comb sources. Diverse techniques including Fourier …

Piezo-deformable mirrors for active mode matching in advanced LIGO

V Srivastava, G Mansell, C Makarem, M Noh… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The detectors of the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO) are broadly
limited by the quantum noise and rely on the injection of squeezed states of light to achieve …

Mode-Conversion-Based Chirped Bragg Gratings on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate

D Tu, X Huang, Y Yin, H Yu, Z Yu, H Guan, Z Li - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
In this work, we propose a mode-conversion-based chirped Bragg grating on thin-film lithium
niobate (TFLN). The device is mainly composed of a 4.7-mm long chirped asymmetric Bragg …