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 …

Chip-scale nonlinear photonics for quantum light generation

G Moody, L Chang, TJ Steiner, JE Bowers - AVS Quantum Science, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Nonclassical states of light are an essential resource for many emerging quantum
technologies and applications ranging from information processing, encrypted …

Silicon carbide for integrated photonics

A Yi, C Wang, L Zhou, Y Zhu, S Zhang, T You… - Applied Physics …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on lithographically patterned waveguides provide
a scalable approach for manipulating photonic bits, enabling seminal demonstrations of a …

Mid infrared gas spectroscopy using efficient fiber laser driven photonic chip-based supercontinuum

D Grassani, E Tagkoudi, H Guo, C Herkommer… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Directly accessing the middle infrared, the molecular functional group spectral region, via
supercontinuum generation processes based on turn-key fiber lasers offers the undeniable …

Efficient photoinduced second-harmonic generation in silicon nitride photonics

X Lu, G Moille, A Rao, DA Westly, K Srinivasan - Nature Photonics, 2021 - nature.com
Silicon photonics lacks a second-order nonlinear optical (χ (2)) response in general,
because the typical constituent materials are centrosymmetric and lack inversion symmetry …

Efficient telecom-to-visible spectral translation through ultralow power nonlinear nanophotonics

X Lu, G Moille, Q Li, DA Westly, A Singh, A Rao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The ability to spectrally translate lightwave signals in a compact, low-power platform is at the
heart of the promise of nonlinear nanophotonic technologies. For example, a device to …

Giant enhancement of harmonic generation in all-dielectric resonant waveguide gratings of quasi-bound states in the continuum

T Ning, X Li, Y Zhao, L Yin, Y Huo, L Zhao, Q Yue - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report the giant enhanced optical harmonic generation in all-dielectric silicon nitride
(SiN) based resonant waveguide gratings (RWGs) of quasi-bound states in the continuum …

Engineered second-order nonlinearity in silicon nitride

Y Zhang, J Nauriyal, M Song… - Optical Materials …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The lack of a bulk second-order nonlinearity (χ^(2)) in silicon nitride (Si_3N_4) keeps this
low-loss, CMOS-compatible platform from key active functions such as Pockels electro-optic …

Nonlinear nanophotonic devices in the ultraviolet to visible wavelength range

J He, H Chen, J Hu, J Zhou, Y Zhang, A Kovach… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Although the first lasers invented operated in the visible, the first on-chip devices were
optimized for near-infrared (IR) performance driven by demand in telecommunications …

Formation Rules and Dynamics of Photoinduced χ(2) Gratings in Silicon Nitride Waveguides

E Nitiss, T Liu, D Grassani, M Pfeiffer… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Silicon nitride has emerged as a prominent platform for building photonics integrated
circuits. While its nonlinear properties based on third-order effects have been successfully …