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 …

Optical meta-waveguides for integrated photonics and beyond

Y Meng, Y Chen, L Lu, Y Ding, A Cusano… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
The growing maturity of nanofabrication has ushered massive sophisticated optical
structures available on a photonic chip. The integration of subwavelength-structured …

Non-Hermitian optics and photonics: from classical to quantum

C Wang, Z Fu, W Mao, J Qie, AD Stone… - Advances in Optics and …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Non-Hermitian optics is a burgeoning field at the intersection of quantum physics,
electrodynamics, and nanophotonics. It provides a new perspective of the role of gain 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 …

2022 Roadmap on integrated quantum photonics

G Moody, VJ Sorger, DJ Blumenthal… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrated photonics will play a key role in quantum systems as they grow from few-qubit
prototypes to tens of thousands of qubits. The underlying optical quantum technologies can …

Integrated silicon photonic MEMS

N Quack, AY Takabayashi, H Sattari… - Microsystems & …, 2023 - nature.com
Silicon photonics has emerged as a mature technology that is expected to play a key role in
critical emerging applications, including very high data rate optical communications …

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 …

High‐Q Thin‐Film Lithium Niobate Microrings Fabricated with Wet Etching

R Zhuang, J He, Y Qi, Y Li - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thin‐film lithium niobate (TFLN) has been widely used in electro‐optic modulators, acoustic‐
–optic modulators, electro‐optic frequency combs, and nonlinear wavelength converters …

Advances in lithium niobate thin-film lasers and amplifiers: a review

Q Luo, F Bo, Y Kong, G Zhang, J Xu - Advanced Photonics, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) thin film has received much attention as an integrated photonic
platform, due to its rich and great photoelectric characteristics, based on which various …

Ion-cut lithium niobate on insulator technology: Recent advances and perspectives

Y Jia, L Wang, F Chen - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Lithium niobate (LiNbO 3 or LN) is a well-known multifunctional crystal that has been widely
applied in various areas of photonics, electronics, and optoelectronics. In the past …