The physics of optical computing

PL McMahon - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
There has been a resurgence of interest in optical computing since the early 2010s, both in
academia and in industry, with much of the excitement centred around special-purpose …

Programmable photonic circuits

W Bogaerts, D Pérez, J Capmany, DAB Miller, J Poon… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The growing maturity of integrated photonic technology makes it possible to build
increasingly large and complex photonic circuits on the surface of a chip. Today, most of …

Advances in lithium niobate photonics: development status and perspectives

G Chen, N Li, JD Ng, HL Lin, Y Zhou, YH Fu… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) has experienced significant developments during past decades due to
its versatile properties, especially its large electro-optic (EO) coefficient. For example, bulk …

Quantum photonics with layered 2D materials

M Turunen, M Brotons-Gisbert, Y Dai, Y Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Solid-state quantum devices use quantum entanglement for various quantum technologies,
such as quantum computation, encryption, communication and sensing. Solid-state …

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 …

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

Meta-optics achieves RGB-achromatic focusing for virtual reality

Z Li, P Lin, YW Huang, JS Park, WT Chen, Z Shi… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Virtual and augmented realities are rapidly develo** technologies, but their large-scale
penetration will require lightweight optical components with small aberrations. We …

Trapped-ion quantum computing: Progress and challenges

CD Bruzewicz, J Chiaverini, R McConnell… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Trapped ions are among the most promising systems for practical quantum computing (QC).
The basic requirements for universal QC have all been demonstrated with ions, and …

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 …

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 (LiNbO3 or LN) is a well-known multifunctional crystal that has been widely
applied in various areas of photonics, electronics, and optoelectronics. In the past …