Photonic van der Waals integration from 2D materials to 3D nanomembranes

Y Meng, J Feng, S Han, Z Xu, W Mao, T Zhang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
The integration of functional nanomaterials and heterostructures with photonic architectures
has laid the foundation for important photonic and optoelectronic applications. The advent 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 …

Femtosecond laser writing of lithium niobate ferroelectric nanodomains

X Xu, T Wang, P Chen, C Zhou, J Ma, D Wei, H Wang… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) is viewed as a promising material for optical communications and
quantum photonic chips,. Recent breakthroughs in LiNbO3 nanophotonics have …

Adapted poling to break the nonlinear efficiency limit in nanophotonic lithium niobate waveguides

PK Chen, I Briggs, C Cui, L Zhang, M Shah… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Nonlinear frequency mixing is a method to extend the wavelength range of optical sources
with applications in quantum information and photonic signal processing. Lithium niobate …

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 …

All-optical ultrafast polarization switching with nonlinear plasmonic metasurfaces

H Wang, Z Hu, J Deng, X Zhang, J Chen, K Li, G Li - Science Advances, 2024‏ - science.org
Optical switching has important applications in optical information processing, optical
computing, and optical communications. The long-term pursuit of optical switch is to achieve …

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 …

Recent advances in photonic crystal optical devices: A review

MA Butt, SN Khonina, NL Kazanskiy - Optics & laser technology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract In 1987, Yablonovitch and John proposed an artificial dielectric structure known as
Photonic crystals (PhCs) consisting of periodic and random variation of the refractive index …

Manipulation of nonlinear optical responses in layered ferroelectric niobium oxide dihalides

L Ye, W Zhou, D Huang, X Jiang, Q Guo, X Cao… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Realization of highly tunable second-order nonlinear optical responses, eg, second-
harmonic generation and bulk photovoltaic effect, is critical for develo** modern optical …

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 …