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 …

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 …

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 …

Ultralow-threshold thin-film lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator

J Lu, A Al Sayem, Z Gong, JB Surya, CL Zou, HX Tang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Materials with strong second-order (χ^(2)) optical nonlinearity, especially lithium niobate,
play a critical role in building optical parametric oscillators (OPOs). However, chip-scale …

Pockels soliton microcomb

AW Bruch, X Liu, Z Gong, JB Surya, M Li, CL Zou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Kerr soliton microcombs have recently emerged as a prominent topic in integrated photonics
and have enabled new horizons for optical frequency metrology. Kerr soliton microcombs …

Ultra-broadband Kerr microcomb through soliton spectral translation

G Moille, EF Perez, JR Stone, A Rao, X Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Broadband and low-noise microresonator frequency combs (microcombs) are critical for
deployable optical frequency measurements. Here we expand the bandwidth of a …

Frequency comb generation via cascaded second-order nonlinearities in microresonators

J Szabados, DN Puzyrev, Y Minet, L Reis, K Buse… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Optical frequency combs are revolutionizing modern time and frequency metrology. In the
past years, their range of applications has increased substantially, driven by their …

Kerr frequency comb interaction with Raman, Brillouin, and second order nonlinear effects

G Lin, Q Song - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Kerr optical frequency comb as a novel microcomb source has found a variety of key
applications from fundamental research to engineering applications. Generation of such …

Optical-parametric-oscillation-based χ(2) frequency comb in a lithium niobate microresonator

N Amiune, DN Puzyrev, VV Pankratov, DV Skryabin… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Microresonator frequency combs based on the χ^(3) nonlinearity are nowadays well
understood and making their way into different applications. Recently, microresonator …

Photo-induced cascaded harmonic and comb generation in silicon nitride microresonators

J Hu, E Nitiss, J He, J Liu, O Yakar, W Weng… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Silicon nitride (Si3N4) is an ever-maturing integrated platform for nonlinear optics but mostly
considered for third-order [χ (3)] nonlinear interactions. Recently, second-order [χ (2)] …