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 …

Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

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 …

Few-cycle vacuum squeezing in nanophotonics

R Nehra, R Sekine, L Ledezma, Q Guo, RM Gray… - Science, 2022 - science.org
One of the most fundamental quantum states of light is the squeezed vacuum, in which noise
in one of the quadratures is less than the standard quantum noise limit. In nanophotonics, it …

Integrated quantum optical phase sensor in thin film lithium niobate

HS Stokowski, TP McKenna, T Park, AY Hwang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The quantum noise of light, attributed to the random arrival time of photons from a coherent
light source, fundamentally limits optical phase sensors. An engineered source of squeezed …

Programmable optical filter in thin-film lithium niobate with simultaneous tunability of extinction ratio and wavelength

S Hou, P Chen, M Shah, I Briggs, W **ng, Z Liu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
On-chip optical filters are of key importance to many modern applications such as optical
interconnections and wavelength division multiplexing systems. In all these scenarios …

Broadband generation and tomography of non-Gaussian states for ultra-fast optical quantum processors

A Kawasaki, R Ide, H Brunel, T Suzuki, R Nehra… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Quantum information processors benefit from high clock frequencies to fully harness
quantum advantages before they are lost to decoherence. All-optical systems offer unique …

Visible-telecom tunable dual-band optical isolator based on dynamic modulation in thin-film lithium niobate

M Shah, I Briggs, PK Chen, S Hou, L Fan - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Optical isolators are an essential component of photonic systems. Current integrated optical
isolators have limited bandwidths due to stringent phase-matching conditions, resonant …

Real-time observation of picosecond-timescale optical quantum entanglement towards ultrafast quantum information processing

A Kawasaki, H Brunel, R Ide, T Suzuki… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Entanglement is a fundamental resource for various optical quantum information processing
(QIP) applications. To achieve high-speed QIP systems, entanglement should be encoded in …

Domain growth driven by a femtosecond laser in lithium niobate crystal

X Wang, Q Cao, R Wang, X Cao, S Liu - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate to drive domain growth in lithium niobate crystal by using a
focused infrared femtosecond laser without relative displacement or any additional …