Silicon photonics for the visible and near-infrared spectrum

JKS Poon, A Govdeli, A Sharma, X Mu… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Emerging applications in quantum information, microscopy, biosensing, depth sensing, and
augmented reality demand miniaturized components in the visible (VIS) and near-infrared …

High density lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

Z Li, RN Wang, G Lihachev, J Zhang, Z Tan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Photonic integrated circuits have the potential to pervade into multiple applications
traditionally limited to bulk optics. Of particular interest for new applications are ferroelectrics …

Chip-scale frequency combs for data communications in computing systems

Y Okawachi, BY Kim, M Lipson, AL Gaeta - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Recent developments in chip-based frequency-comb technology demonstrate that comb
devices can be implemented in applications where photonic integration and power …

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 …

High-speed electro-optic modulation in topological interface states of a one-dimensional lattice

Y Zhang, J Shen, J Li, H Wang, C Feng… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Electro-optic modulators are key components in data communication, microwave photonics,
and quantum photonics. Modulation bandwidth, energy efficiency, and device dimension are …

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 …

Freeform direct-write and rewritable photonic integrated circuits in phase-change thin films

C Wu, H Deng, YS Huang, H Yu, I Takeuchi… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with rapid prototyping and reprogramming capabilities
promise revolutionary impacts on a plethora of photonic technologies. We report direct-write …

A fully hybrid integrated Erbium-based laser

Y Liu, Z Qiu, X Ji, A Bancora, G Lihachev… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Erbium-doped fibre lasers exhibit high coherence and low noise as required for fibre-optic
sensing, gyroscopes, LiDAR and optical frequency metrology. Endowing erbium-based gain …

Thin-film lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: to etch or not to etch

S Mookherjea, V Mere, F Valdez - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
This Perspective discusses and compares several different approaches to the design of high-
bandwidth, low-voltage electro-optic devices, such as Mach–Zehnder modulators, made …

Aluminum nitride thin film based reconfigurable integrated photonic devices

Z Luo, A Zhang, W Huang, S Shao… - IEEE Journal of …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past few decades, silicon photonics with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor
(CMOS) process compatibility has been well developed and successfully applied to …