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 …

Applications of thin-film lithium niobate in nonlinear integrated photonics

MG Vazimali, S Fathpour - Advanced Photonics, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Photonics on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as one of the most pursued
disciplines within integrated optics. Ultracompact and low-loss optical waveguides and …

Delocalized photonic deep learning on the internet's edge

A Sludds, S Bandyopadhyay, Z Chen, Z Zhong… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Advanced machine learning models are currently impossible to run on edge devices such
as smart sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles owing to constraints on power, processing …

Chip-scale high-performance photonic microwave oscillator

Y He, L Cheng, H Wang, Y Zhang, R Meade… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Optical frequency division based on bulk or fiber optics provides unprecedented spectral
purity for microwave oscillators. To extend the applications of this approach, the challenges …

Ultrafast mode-locked laser in nanophotonic lithium niobate

Q Guo, BK Gutierrez, R Sekine, RM Gray, JA Williams… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Mode-locked lasers (MLLs) generate ultrashort pulses with peak powers substantially
exceeding their average powers. However, integrated MLLs that drive ultrafast …

A power-efficient integrated lithium niobate electro-optic comb generator

K Zhang, W Sun, Y Chen, H Feng, Y Zhang… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated electro-optic (EO) frequency combs are essential components for future
applications in optical communications, light detection and ranging, optical computation …

Twenty-nine million intrinsic Q-factor monolithic microresonators on thin-film lithium niobate

X Zhu, Y Hu, S Lu, HK Warner, X Li, Y Song… - Photonics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The recent emergence of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has extended the landscape of
integrated photonics. This has been enabled by the commercialization of TFLN wafers and …

Active mid-infrared ring resonators

D Kazakov, TP Letsou, M Beiser, Y Zhi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
High-quality optical ring resonators can confine light in a small volume and store it for
millions of roundtrips. They have enabled the dramatic size reduction from laboratory scale …

Surpassing the nonlinear conversion efficiency of soliton microcombs

ÓB Helgason, M Girardi, Z Ye, F Lei, J Schröder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser frequency combs are enabling some of the most exciting scientific endeavours in the
twenty-first century, ranging from the development of optical clocks to the calibration of the …

Electro‐optic frequency combs: Theory, characteristics, and applications

R Zhuang, K Ni, G Wu, T Hao, L Lu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are a unique kind of light source, which are represented as
a series of equally spaced coherent spectral lines in the frequency domain. OFCs can …