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7 papers

physics.optics2026

Few-cycle electro-optic light on thin-film lithium niobate

Xinyi Ren, Chun-Ho Lee, Ian Christen +6

The twin fields of ultrafast optics and nonlinear photonics enable applications ranging from attosecond science [1, 2] and ultrafast electronics [3] to molecular spectroscopy [4, 5…

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.optics2026

Quantum squeezing in an all-resonant periodically poled lithium niobate microresonator

Xinyi Ren, Reshma Kopparapu, Tushar Sanjay Karnik +12

Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of optical measurements, but squeezed states of light enable quantum-enhanced metrology, sensing, and information processing. Most on-chip sque…

physics.optics2026

Suspended thin-film lithium niobate modulator for broadband mid-infrared light modulation and frequency comb generation

Chun-Ho Lee, Xinyi Ren, Xinzhou Su +12

The mid-infrared (MIR) spectral regime is central to applications including remote sensing, precision spectroscopy, higher harmonic generation, and free-space optical communication…

physics.optics2026

Uncooled low-noise thin-film optomechanical resonator for thermal sensing on lithium niobate

Yue Yu, Ran Yin, Ian Anderson +9

Optomechanical transduction harnesses the interaction between optical fields and mechanical motion to achieve sensitive measurement of weak mechanical quantities with inherently lo…