Applications of optical microcombs

Y Sun, J Wu, M Tan, X Xu, Y Li, R Morandotti… - Advances in Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcombs represent a new paradigm for generating laser frequency combs based
on compact chip-scale devices, which have underpinned many modern technological …

[PDF][PDF] All-dielectric χ(2) metasurfaces: recent progress

C Gigli, G Leo - Opto-Electronic Advances, 2022 - researching.cn
Optical metasurfaces, ie arrays of nanoantennas with sub-wavelength size and separation,
enable the manipulation of light-matter interactions in miniaturized optical components with …

Toward 1% single-photon anharmonicity with periodically poled lithium niobate microring resonators

J Lu, M Li, CL Zou, A Al Sayem, HX Tang - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The absence of the single-photon nonlinearity has been a major roadblock in develo**
quantum photonic circuits at optical frequencies. In this paper, we demonstrate a periodically …

Periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators with a second-harmonic generation efficiency of 250,000%/W

J Lu, JB Surya, X Liu, AW Bruch, Z Gong, Y Xu… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), dubbed by many as the silicon of photonics, has recently risen to the
forefront of chip-scale nonlinear optics research since its demonstration as an ultralow-loss …

Integrated gallium phosphide nonlinear photonics

DJ Wilson, K Schneider, S Hönl, M Anderson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Gallium phosphide (GaP) is an indirect-bandgap semiconductor used widely in solid-state
lighting. Despite numerous intriguing optical properties—including large χ (2) and χ (3) …

Bridging the gap between dielectric nanophotonics and the visible regime with effectively lossless gallium phosphide antennas

J Cambiasso, G Grinblat, Y Li, A Rakovich, E Cortés… - Nano …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We present all-dielectric gallium phosphide (GaP) nanoantennas as an efficient
nanophotonic platform for surface-enhanced second harmonic generation (SHG) and …

Engineered quantum dot single-photon sources

S Buckley, K Rivoire, J Vučković - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast, high efficiency and low error single-photon sources are required for the implementation
of a number of quantum information processing applications. The fastest triggered single …

Second-harmonic generation in aluminum nitride microrings with 2500%/W conversion efficiency

X Guo, CL Zou, HX Tang - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Photonic integrated circuits hold promise as miniaturized and scalable platforms for classical
and quantum photonic information processing. Second-order nonlinearity (χ^(2)) is the basis …

Highly tunable efficient second-harmonic generation in a lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguide

R Luo, Y He, H Liang, M Li, Q Lin - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Highly tunable coherent light generation is crucial for many important photonic applications.
Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a dominant approach for this purpose, which …

First-principles materials applications and design of nonlinear optical crystals

Z Lin, X Jiang, L Kang, P Gong, S Luo… - Journal of Physics D …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
With the development of laser technology and related scientific fields, understanding of the
structure–property relationships in nonlinear optical (NLO) crystals is becoming more and …