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 …

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 …

Nonadiabatic landau–zener–stückelberg–majorana transitions, dynamics, and interference

V Ivakhnenko, SN Shevchenko, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Since the pioneering works by Landau, Zener, Stückelberg, and Majorana (LZSM), it has
been known that driving a quantum two-level system results in tunneling between its states …

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 …

Continuous wideband microwave-to-optical converter based on room-temperature Rydberg atoms

S Borówka, U Pylypenko, M Mazelanik, M Parniak - Nature Photonics, 2024 - nature.com
The coupling of microwave and optical systems presents an immense challenge due to the
natural incompatibility of energies, but potential applications range from optical …

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 …

Optically heralded microwave photon addition

W Jiang, FM Mayor, S Malik, R Van Laer, TP McKenna… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Photons with optical frequencies of a few hundred terahertz are perhaps the only way to
distribute quantum information over long distances. Superconducting qubits, which are one …

Microwave-optical quantum frequency conversion

X Han, W Fu, CL Zou, L Jiang, HX Tang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photons at microwave and optical frequencies are principal carriers for quantum information.
While microwave photons can be effectively controlled at the local circuit level, optical …

Entanglement-based quantum information technology: a tutorial

Z Zhang, C You, OS Magaña-Loaiza… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Entanglement is a quintessential quantum mechanical phenomenon with no classical
equivalent. First discussed by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen and formally introduced by …