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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

Breaking On/Off-coupling Loss Degeneracies via Bidirectional Nonlinear Optics

Bo-Han Wu, Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad, Mengjie Yu +1

Accurate evaluation of nonlinear photonic integrated circuits requires separating input and output coupling efficiencies (i.e., and ), yet the conventional linear-tran…

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…

physics.optics2025

Fundamental Phase Noise in Thin Film Lithium Niobate Resonators

Ran Yin, Yue Yu, Chunho Lee +3

Fundamental phase noise in thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonic integrated circuits is governed by thermal-charge-carrier-refractive (TCCR) dynamics arising from thermally dri…