In the last century, molecular crystals functioned predominantly as a means for determining
the molecular structures via X-ray diffraction, albeit as the century came to a close the …

Many breakthroughs in the laboratories often do not bridge the gap between research and
commercialization. However, silicon photonics bucked the trend, with industry observers …

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 …

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 …

Optical links are moving to higher and higher transmission speeds while shrinking to shorter
and shorter ranges where optical links are envisaged even at the chip scale. The scaling in …

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 …

Over the last 20 years, silicon photonics has revolutionized the field of integrated optics,
providing a novel and powerful platform to build mass-producible optical circuits. One of the …

Lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) technology is revolutionizing the lithium niobate industry,
enabling higher performance, lower cost and entirely new devices and applications. The …

Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator (LNOI) is a promising material platform for integrated
photonics due to single crystal LiNbO3 film's wide transparent window, high refractive index …

Crystalline lithium niobate (LN) is an important optical material because of its broad
transmission window that spans from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and its large nonlinear and …