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5 papers

physics.optics2026

80 Channel Photon Pair Source from a Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Racetrack Microresonator

Mihir Chaudhari, Ian Christen, Xinyi Ren +6

Nanophotonic platforms have multiple properties and features desirable for producing correlated photon pairs. In these platforms, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) and…

physics.optics2026

18-dB on-chip vacuum squeezing in an adaptively poled lithium niobate waveguide

Tushar Sanjay Karnik, Xinyi Ren, Chun-Ho Lee +16

Quantum squeezed states of light can enhance measurement sensitivity beyond classical limits and enable quantum information processing, but scalable low-loss sources remain challen…

physics.app-ph2025

Thermal Endurance of Suspended Thin-Film Lithium Niobate up to 800 °C

Mihir Chaudhari, Lezli Matto, Naveed Ahmed +8

The need for high-temperature piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) requires pushing piezoelectric platforms to their thermal limits. In harsh thermal environments, p…

physics.app-ph2025

Residual Stress Anisotropy In Thin-Film Lithium Niobate For Stress-Managed MEMS

Byeongjin Kim, Ian Anderson, Tzu-Hsuan Hsu +4

In this work, we present the first experimental study of residual stress and post-release beam deflection in 128-degree Y-cut thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) on Si, revealing pron…

physics.app-ph2025

Thermal Resilience of Suspended Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Acoustic Resonators up to 550 °C

Mihir Chaudhari, Naveed Ahmed, Vivek Tallavajhula +4

This paper reports a suspended thin-film lithium niobate (LN) piezoelectric resonator platform surviving high annealing temperatures of 550 °C, among the highest temperature at wh…