A progress review on solid‐state LiDAR and nanophotonics‐based LiDAR sensors

N Li, CP Ho, J Xue, LW Lim, G Chen… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors enable precision sensing of an object in 3D.
LiDAR technology is widely used in metrology, environment monitoring, archaeology, and …

High harmonic generation in condensed matter

E Goulielmakis, T Brabec - Nature Photonics, 2022‏ - nature.com
When solids are exposed to intense laser fields whose forces are comparable to the binding
forces of valence electrons in crystals, nonlinear optics of solids advances to the …

Laser soliton microcombs heterogeneously integrated on silicon

C **ang, J Liu, J Guo, L Chang, RN Wang, W Weng… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Silicon photonics enables wafer-scale integration of optical functionalities on chip. Silicon-
based laser frequency combs can provide integrated sources of mutually coherent laser …

Optical frequency combs: Coherently uniting the electromagnetic spectrum

SA Diddams, K Vahala, T Udem - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND The generation and control of coherent electromagnetic waves, such as
those provided by electronic oscillators in the radio frequency domain or lasers in the optical …

20 years of developments in optical frequency comb technology and applications

T Fortier, E Baumann - Communications Physics, 2019‏ - nature.com
Optical frequency combs were developed nearly two decades ago to support the world's
most precise atomic clocks. Acting as precision optical synthesizers, frequency combs …

[HTML][HTML] Photonic quantum metrology

E Polino, M Valeri, N Spagnolo, F Sciarrino - AVS Quantum Science, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
Quantum metrology is one of the most promising applications of quantum technologies. The
aim of this research field is the estimation of unknown parameters exploiting quantum …

Neuromorphic computing based on wavelength-division multiplexing

X Xu, W Han, M Tan, Y Sun, Y Li, J Wu… - IEEE Journal of …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical neural networks (ONNs), or optical neuromorphic hardware accelerators, have the
potential to dramatically enhance the computing power and energy efficiency of mainstream …

Sending-or-not-sending with independent lasers: Secure twin-field quantum key distribution over 509 km

JP Chen, C Zhang, Y Liu, C Jiang, W Zhang, XL Hu… - Physical review …, 2020‏ - APS
Twin-field (TF) quantum key distribution (QKD) promises high key rates over long distances
to beat the rate-distance limit. Here, applying the sending-or-not-sending TF QKD protocol …

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 …

Integrated lithium niobate photonics

Y Qi, Y Li - Nanophotonics, 2020‏ - degruyter.com
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator (LNOI) is a promising material platform for integrated
photonics due to single crystal LiNbO3 film's wide transparent window, high refractive index …