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 …

Integrated optical frequency comb technologies

L Chang, S Liu, JE Bowers - Nature Photonics, 2022‏ - nature.com
Optical frequency combs offer an unrivalled degree of frequency measurement precision
that underpins the advance of modern technology in both fundamental science and …

Integrated femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate

M Yu, D Barton III, R Cheng, C Reimer, P Kharel, L He… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Integrated femtosecond pulse and frequency comb sources are critical components for a
wide range of applications, including optical atomic clocks, microwave photonics …

Advances in lithium niobate photonics: development status and perspectives

G Chen, N Li, JD Ng, HL Lin, Y Zhou, YH Fu… - Advanced …, 2022‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) has experienced significant developments during past decades due to
its versatile properties, especially its large electro-optic (EO) coefficient. For example, bulk …

Integrated lithium niobate microwave photonic processing engine

H Feng, T Ge, X Guo, B Wang, Y Zhang, Z Chen, S Zhu… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Integrated microwave photonics (MWP) is an intriguing technology for the generation,
transmission and manipulation of microwave signals in chip-scale optical systems,. In …

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 …

Taking silicon photonics modulators to a higher performance level: state-of-the-art and a review of new technologies

A Rahim, A Hermans, B Wohlfeil, D Petousi… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - spiedigitallibrary.org
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 …

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021‏ - opg.optica.org
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 …

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

V Snigirev, A Riedhauser, G Lihachev, M Churaev… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Early works and recent advances in thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator have
enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits,, modulators with improved half-wave voltage …

Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing

C Wang, Z Li, J Riemensberger, G Lihachev… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Electro-optical photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithium niobate (LiNbO3) have
demonstrated the vast capabilities of materials with a high Pockels coefficient,. They enable …