Integrated optical memristors

N Youngblood, CA Ríos Ocampo, WHP Pernice… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Memristors in electronics have shown the potential for a range of applications, ranging from
circuit elements to neuromorphic computing. In recent years, the ability to vary the …

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 …

Frequency–angular resolving LiDAR using chip-scale acousto-optic beam steering

B Li, Q Lin, M Li - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Thanks to its superior imaging resolution and range, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is
fast becoming an indispensable optical perception technology for intelligent automation …

Photonic (computational) memories: tunable nanophotonics for data storage and computing

C Lian, C Vagionas, T Alexoudi, N Pleros… - …, 2022 - degruyter.com
The exponential growth of information stored in data centers and computational power
required for various data-intensive applications, such as deep learning and AI, call for new …

Microwave-to-optical conversion using lithium niobate thin-film acoustic resonators

L Shao, M Yu, S Maity, N Sinclair, L Zheng, C Chia… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Acoustic or mechanical resonators have emerged as a promising means to mediate efficient
microwave-to-optical conversion. Here, we demonstrate conversion of microwaves up to 4.5 …

100 years of Brillouin scattering: Historical and future perspectives

M Merklein, IV Kabakova, A Zarifi… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Year 2022 marks 100 years since Leon Brillouin predicted and theoretically described
the interaction of optical waves with acoustic waves in a medium. Accordingly, this resonant …

Optomechanical ring resonator for efficient microwave-optical frequency conversion

IT Chen, B Li, S Lee, S Chakravarthi, KM Fu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Phonons traveling in solid-state devices are emerging as a universal excitation for coupling
different physical systems. Phonons at microwave frequencies have a similar wavelength to …

Piezoelectric actuation<? pag\break?> for integrated photonics

H Tian, J Liu, A Attanasio, A Siddharth… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Recent decades have seen significant advancements in integrated photonics, driven by
improvements in nanofabrication technology. This field has been developed from integrated …

Electrically interfaced Brillouin-active waveguide for microwave photonic measurements

Y Zhou, F Ruesink, M Pavlovich, R Behunin… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
New strategies for converting signals between optical and microwave domains could play a
pivotal role in advancing both classical and quantum technologies. Traditional approaches …

Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate

L Shao, N Sinclair, J Leatham, Y Hu, M Yu, T Turpin… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Electrically driven acousto-optic devices that provide beam deflection and optical frequency
shifting have broad applications from pulse synthesis to heterodyne detection. Commercially …