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most citedIntegrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

1.5k citations · 3.3k across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

physics.optics2025

A universal framework for nonlinear frequency combs under electro-optic modulation

Yanyun Xue, Xianpeng Lv, Guangxing Wu +9

Nonlinear frequency combs, including electro-optic and Kerr combs, have become central platforms for chip-scale frequency synthesis. Recent breakthroughs in strong-coupling electro…

physics.optics2025★ 2 cited

Universal dynamics and microwave control of programmable cavity electro-optic frequency combs

Yunxiang Song, Tianqi Lei, Yanyun Xue +13

Electro-optic (EO) frequency combs are foundational for metrology and spectroscopy. Specifically, microresonator-based cavity EO combs are distinguished by efficient sideband gener…

physics.optics2025

Strong-coupling and high-bandwidth cavity electro-optic modulation for advanced pulse-comb synthesis

Tianqi Lei, Yunxiang Song, Yanyun Xue +3

Cavity electro-optic (EO) modulation plays a pivotal role in optical pulse and frequency comb synthesis, supporting a wide range of applications including communication, computing,…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

Integrated electro-optic digital-to-analog link for efficient computing and arbitrary waveform generation

Yunxiang Song, Yaowen Hu, Xinrui Zhu +13

The rapid growth in artificial intelligence and modern communication systems demands innovative solutions for increased computational power and advanced signaling capabilities. Int…

physics.optics2024★ 8 cited

Integrated lithium niobate photonic computing circuit based on efficient and high-speed electro-optic conversion

Yaowen Hu, Yunxiang Song, Xinrui Zhu +24

Here we show a photonic computing accelerator utilizing a system-level thin-film lithium niobate circuit which overcomes this limitation. Leveraging the strong electro-optic (Pocke…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate

Yaowen Hu, Di Zhu, Shengyuan Lu +13

Electro-optics serves as the crucial bridge between electronics and photonics, unlocking a wide array of applications ranging from communications and computing to sensing and quant…

physics.optics2024★ 63 cited

Octave-spanning Kerr soliton frequency combs in dispersion- and dissipation-engineered lithium niobate microresonators

Yunxiang Song, Yaowen Hu, Xinrui Zhu +2

Dissipative Kerr solitons from optical microresonators, commonly referred to as soliton microcombs, have been developed for a broad range of applications, including precision measu…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Twenty-nine million Intrinsic Q-factor Monolithic Microresonators on Thin Film Lithium Niobate

Xinrui Zhu, Yaowen Hu, Shengyuan Lu +7

The recent emergence of thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has extended the landscape of integrated photonics. This has been enabled by the commercialization of TFLN wafers and advan…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Hybrid Kerr-electro-optic frequency combs on thin-film lithium niobate

Yunxiang Song, Yaowen Hu, Marko Lončar +1

Optical frequency combs are indispensable links between the optical and microwave domains, enabling a wide range of applications including precision spectroscopy, ultrastable frequ…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Frequency comb generation via synchronous pumped resonator on thin-film lithium niobate

Rebecca Cheng, Mengjie Yu, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari +4

Resonator-based optical frequency comb generation is an enabling technology for a myriad of applications ranging from communications to precision spectroscopy. These frequency comb…

physics.optics2022★ 280 cited

Integrated Electro-Optic Isolator on Thin Film Lithium Niobate

Mengjie Yu, Rebecca Cheng, Christian Reimer +9

Optical isolator is an indispensable component of almost any optical system and is used to protect a laser from unwanted reflections for phase-stable coherent operation. The develo…

physics.optics2022★ 123 cited

Sub-1 Volt and High-Bandwidth Visible to Near-Infrared Electro-Optic Modulators

Dylan Renaud, Daniel Rimoli Assumpcao, Graham Joe +5

Integrated electro-optic (EO) modulators are fundamental photonics components with utility in domains ranging from digital communications to quantum information processing. At tele…

physics.optics2022★ 38 cited

Mirror-induced reflection in the frequency domain

Yaowen Hu, Mengjie Yu, Neil Sinclair +4

Mirrors are ubiquitous in optics and are used to control the propagation of optical signals in space. Here we propose and demonstrate frequency domain mirrors that provide reflecti…

physics.optics2021★ 84 cited

Spectral control of nonclassical light using an integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator

Di Zhu, Changchen Chen, Mengjie Yu +11

Manipulating the frequency and bandwidth of nonclassical light is essential for implementing frequency-encoded/multiplexed quantum computation, communication, and networking protoc…

physics.optics2021★ 6 cited

Femtosecond Pulse Generation via an Integrated Electro-Optic Time Lens

Mengjie Yu, Christian Reimer, David Barton +12

Integrated femtosecond pulse and frequency comb sources are critical components for a wide range of applications. The leading approaches for on-chip pulse generation rely on mode l…

physics.optics2021★ 218 cited

High-efficiency and broadband electro-optic frequency combs enabled by coupled micro-resonators

Yaowen Hu, Mengjie Yu, Brandon Buscaino +8

Developments in integrated photonics have led to stable, compact, and broadband comb generators that support a wide range of applications. Current on-chip comb generators, however,…

physics.optics2021★ 1.5k cited

Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

Di Zhu, Linbo Shao, Mengjie Yu +12

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 th…

physics.app-ph2021★ 100 cited

Electrical Control of Surface Acoustic Waves

Linbo Shao, Di Zhu, Marco Colangelo +7

Acoustic waves at microwave frequencies have been widely used in wireless communication and recently emerged as versatile information carriers in quantum applications. However, mos…

physics.app-ph2020★ 141 cited

Nonreciprocal Transmission of Microwave Acoustic Waves in Nonlinear Parity-Time Symmetric Resonators

Linbo Shao, Wenbo Mao, Smarak Maity +4

Acoustic waves have emerged as versatile on-chip information carriers with applications ranging from microwave filters to transducers. Nonreciprocal devices are desirable for the c…

physics.optics2020★ 205 cited

Reconfigurable electro-optic frequency shifter

Yaowen Hu, Mengjie Yu, Di Zhu +7

Here we demonstrate an on-chip electro-optic frequency shifter that is precisely controlled using only a single-tone microwave signal. This is accomplished by engineering the densi…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Cavity electro-optics in thin-film lithium niobate for efficient microwave-to-optical transduction

Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Neil Sinclair, Di Zhu +6

Linking superconducting quantum devices to optical fibers via microwave-optical quantum transducers may enable large scale quantum networks. For this application, transducers based…

physics.app-ph2020★ 98 cited

Integrated microwave acousto-optic frequency shifter on thin-film lithium niobate

Linbo Shao, Neil Sinclair, James Leatham +5

Electrically driven acousto-optic devices that provide beam deflection and optical frequency shifting have broad applications from pulse synthesis to heterodyne detection. Commerci…

physics.optics2019★ 112 cited

High-dimensional frequency crystals and quantum walks in electro-optic microcombs

Christian Reimer, Yaowen Hu, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari +2

Synthetic optical structures have enabled studies of various physical processes and discoveries of new phenomena in a controllable manner. Past realizations, using for example coup…

physics.optics2018★ 255 cited

Electronically Programmable Photonic Molecule

Mian Zhang, Cheng Wang, Yaowen Hu +4

Physical systems with discrete energy levels are ubiquitous in nature and are fundamental building blocks of quantum technology. Realizing controllable artifcial atom- and molecule…