Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

Ultrafast second-order nonlinear photonics—from classical physics to non-Gaussian quantum dynamics: a tutorial

M Jankowski, R Yanagimoto, E Ng… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Photonic integrated circuits with second-order (χ (2)) nonlinearities are rapidly scaling to
remarkably low powers. At this time, state-of-the-art devices achieve saturated nonlinear …

Ultrafast mode-locked laser in nanophotonic lithium niobate

Q Guo, BK Gutierrez, R Sekine, RM Gray, JA Williams… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Mode-locked lasers (MLLs) generate ultrashort pulses with peak powers substantially
exceeding their average powers. However, integrated MLLs that drive ultrafast …

Anisotropic Strain-Tailoring Nonlinear Optical Response in van der Waals NbOI2

H Wang, Q Chen, Y Cao, W Sang, F Tan, H Li… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) NbOI2 demonstrates significant second-harmonic generation (SHG)
with a high conversion efficiency. To unlock its full potential in practical applications, it is …

Intense optical parametric amplification in dispersion-engineered nanophotonic lithium niobate waveguides

L Ledezma, R Sekine, Q Guo, R Nehra, S Jahani… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Strong amplification in integrated photonics is one of the most desired optical functionalities
for computing, communications, sensing, and quantum information processing …

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 …

Photonic inverse design of on-chip microresonators

GH Ahn, KY Yang, R Trivedi, AD White, L Su… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The automation of device design enabled by optimization and machine learning techniques
has been transformative for photonics. While this automation has been successful for …

Single-mode squeezed-light generation and tomography with an integrated optical parametric oscillator

T Park, H Stokowski, V Ansari, S Gyger… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Quantum optical technologies promise advances in sensing, computing, and
communication. A key resource is squeezed light, where quantum noise is redistributed …

Mid-infrared spectroscopy with a broadly<? TeX\break?> tunable thin-film lithium niobate optical<? TeX\break?> parametric oscillator

AY Hwang, HS Stokowski, T Park, M Jankowski… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Mid-infrared spectroscopy, an important technique for sensing molecules, has encountered
barriers from sources either limited in tuning range or excessively bulky for widespread use …

A squeezed quantum microcomb on a chip

Z Yang, M Jahanbozorgi, D Jeong, S Sun… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The optical microresonator-based frequency comb (microcomb) provides a versatile platform
for nonlinear physics studies and has wide applications ranging from metrology to …