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 …

Nonlinear photonics with high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonators

G Lin, A Coillet, YK Chembo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-and ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode resonators have the capability to trap
photons by total internal reflection for a duration ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds …

Experimental demonstration of spontaneous chirality in a nonlinear microresonator

QT Cao, H Wang, CH Dong, H Jing, RS Liu, X Chen… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
Chirality is an asymmetric property widely found in nature. Here, we propose and
demonstrate experimentally the spontaneous emergence of chirality in an on-chip ultrahigh …

Microcavity nonlinear optics with an organically functionalized surface

J Chen, X Shen, SJ Tang, QT Cao, Q Gong, YF Xiao - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We report enhanced optical nonlinear effects at the surface of an ultrahigh-Q silica
microcavity functionalized by a thin layer of organic molecules. The maximal conversion …

Miniature multioctave light source based on a monolithic microcavity

W Liang, AA Savchenkov, Z Xie, JF McMillan… - Optica, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Optical microresonators are ideal tools for the reduction of the threshold of optical parametric
oscillation based on four-wave mixing. Usually, the efficiency and bandwidth of the resonant …

Cascading second-order nonlinear processes in a lithium niobate-on-insulator microdisk

S Liu, Y Zheng, X Chen - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microcavities are very important in both fundamental
science and practical applications, among which on-chip second-order nonlinear …

Universal nonlinear scattering in ultra-high Q whispering gallery-mode resonators

G Lin, S Diallo, JM Dudley, YK Chembo - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Universal nonlinear scattering processes such as Brillouin, Raman, and Kerr effects are
fundamental light-matter interactions of particular theoretical and experimental importance …

Ultrafast All-Optical Modulation and Efficient Third-Harmonic Generation in Two-Dimensional Perovskite Heterostructures

Y He, X Hong, J Huang, Y Feng, Q Yi, T Zhou… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Ultrafast all-optical modulation and efficient frequency conversion are highly required for a
wide range of applications including optical communication, microwave photonics, and …

Thermo-optic effects in on-chip lithium niobate microdisk resonators

J Wang, B Zhu, Z Hao, F Bo, X Wang, F Gao, Y Li… - Optics …, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report the experimental observation and theoretical analysis of thermo-optic effects in
high-Q on-chip lithium-niobate (LN) microdisks. We find that the resonance transmission dip …

Rare earth-doped glass whispering gallery mode micro-lasers

G Frigenti, S Berneschi, D Farnesi, S Pelli… - … Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - epjplus.epj.org
We review the works performed on whispering gallery mode (WGM) micro-optical resonators
made in rare-earth (RE) doped glasses for implementing low threshold and narrow line …