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 …

Piezoelectric actuation<? pag\break?> for integrated photonics

H Tian, J Liu, A Attanasio, A Siddharth… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Recent decades have seen significant advancements in integrated photonics, driven by
improvements in nanofabrication technology. This field has been developed from integrated …

Frequency–angular resolving LiDAR using chip-scale acousto-optic beam steering

B Li, Q Lin, M Li - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Thanks to its superior imaging resolution and range, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is
fast becoming an indispensable optical perception technology for intelligent automation …

Optomechanical ring resonator for efficient microwave-optical frequency conversion

IT Chen, B Li, S Lee, S Chakravarthi, KM Fu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Phonons traveling in solid-state devices are emerging as a universal excitation for coupling
different physical systems. Phonons at microwave frequencies have a similar wavelength to …

Long-range transport of 2D excitons with acoustic waves

R Peng, A Ripin, Y Ye, J Zhu, C Wu, S Lee, H Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Excitons are elementary optical excitation in semiconductors. The ability to manipulate and
transport these quasiparticles would enable excitonic circuits and devices for quantum …

Acousto-optic modulation of a wavelength-scale waveguide

CJ Sarabalis, R Van Laer, RN Patel, YD Dahmani… - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Since the advent of the laser, acousto-optic modulators have been an important tool for
controlling light. Recent advances in on-chip lithium niobate waveguide technology present …

Electrical control of surface acoustic waves

L Shao, D Zhu, M Colangelo, D Lee, N Sinclair… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Acoustic waves at microwave frequencies are widely used in wireless communication and
are potential information carriers in quantum applications. However, most acoustic devices …

Excitation and detection of acoustic phonons in nanoscale systems

RC Ng, A El Sachat, F Cespedes, M Poblet, G Madiot… - Nanoscale, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Phonons play a key role in the physical properties of materials, and have long been a topic
of study in physics. While the effects of phonons had historically been considered to be a …

Non-reciprocal acoustoelectric microwave amplifiers with net gain and low noise in continuous operation

L Hackett, M Miller, S Weatherred, S Arterburn… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Piezoelectric acoustic devices that are integrated with semiconductors can leverage the
acoustoelectric effect, allowing functionalities such as gain and isolation to be achieved in …

Giant electron-mediated phononic nonlinearity in semiconductor–piezoelectric heterostructures

L Hackett, M Koppa, B Smith, M Miller, S Santillan… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Efficient and deterministic nonlinear phononic interactions could revolutionize classical and
quantum information processing at radio frequencies in much the same way that nonlinear …