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 …

Microwave-optical quantum frequency conversion

X Han, W Fu, CL Zou, L Jiang, HX Tang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Photons at microwave and optical frequencies are principal carriers for quantum information.
While microwave photons can be effectively controlled at the local circuit level, optical …

Perspectives on quantum transduction

N Lauk, N Sinclair, S Barzanjeh… - Quantum Science …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum transduction, the process of converting quantum signals from one form of energy to
another, is an important area of quantum science and technology. The present perspective …

Aluminum nitride photonic integrated circuits: from piezo-optomechanics to nonlinear optics

X Liu, AW Bruch, HX Tang - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2023 - opg.optica.org
The commercial success of radio-frequency acoustic filters in wireless communication
systems has launched aluminum nitride (AlN) as one of the most widely used …

Entangling microwaves with light

R Sahu, L Qiu, W Hease, G Arnold, Y Minoguchi… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Quantum entanglement is a key resource in currently developed quantum technologies.
Sharing this fragile property between superconducting microwave circuits and optical or …

Bidirectional and efficient conversion between microwave and optical light

RW Andrews, RW Peterson, TP Purdy, K Cicak… - Nature physics, 2014 - nature.com
Converting low-frequency electrical signals into much higher-frequency optical signals has
enabled modern communication networks to leverage the strengths of both microfabricated …

Hybrid quantum circuits: Superconducting circuits interacting<? format?> with other quantum systems

ZL Xiang, S Ashhab, JQ You, F Nori - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
Hybrid quantum circuits combine two or more physical systems, with the goal of harnessing
the advantages and strengths of the different systems in order to better explore new …

Coherent conversion between microwave and optical photons—an overview of physical implementations

NJ Lambert, A Rueda, F Sedlmeir… - Advanced Quantum …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Quantum information technology based on solid state qubits has created much interest in
converting quantum states from the microwave to the optical domain. Optical photons, unlike …

Superconducting cavity electro-optics: a platform for coherent photon conversion between superconducting and photonic circuits

L Fan, CL Zou, R Cheng, X Guo, X Han, Z Gong… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Leveraging the quantum information-processing ability of superconducting circuits and long-
distance distribution ability of optical photons promises the realization of complex and large …

Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength scale: integrated photonics meets integrated phononics

AH Safavi-Naeini, D Van Thourhout, R Baets… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …