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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Synthesized soliton crystals

Z Lu, HJ Chen, W Wang, L Yao, Y Wang, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) featuring broadband coherent frequency comb with compact
size and low power consumption, provides an unparalleled tool for nonlinear physics …

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 …

Self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb

Y He, QF Yang, J Ling, R Luo, H Liang, M Li, B Shen… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
The wide range of functions that are possible with lithium niobate (LN) waveguide devices,
including phase and intensity modulation, second-harmonic generation, and difference …

Advances in on-chip photonic devices based on lithium niobate on insulator

J Lin, F Bo, Y Cheng, J Xu - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Crystalline lithium niobate (LN) is an important optical material because of its broad
transmission window that spans from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and its large nonlinear and …

Femtojoule femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics

Q Guo, R Sekine, L Ledezma, R Nehra, DJ Dean… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Optical nonlinear functions are crucial for various applications in integrated photonics,
including all-optical information processing, photonic neural networks, and on-chip ultrafast …