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20182023
most citedEfficient bidirectional piezo-optomechanical transduction between microwave and optical frequency

277 citations · 1.2k across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

quant-ph2023★ 22 cited

Mesoscopic ultrafast nonlinear optics -- The emergence of multimode quantum non-Gaussian physics

Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Marc Jankowski +8

Over the last few decades, nonlinear optics has become significantly more nonlinear, traversing nearly a billionfold improvement in energy efficiency, with ultrafast nonlinear nano…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Single-Mode Squeezed Light Generation and Tomography with an Integrated Optical Parametric Oscillator

Taewon Park, Hubert S. Stokowski, Vahid Ansari +9

Quantum optical technologies promise advances in sensing, computing, and communication. A key resource is squeezed light, where quantum noise is redistributed between optical quadr…

physics.optics2023

Arbitrary electro-optic bandwidth and frequency control in lithium niobate optical resonators

Jason F. Herrmann, Devin J. Dean, Christopher J. Sarabalis +6

In situ tunable photonic filters and memories are important for emerging quantum and classical optics technologies. However, most photonic devices have fixed resonances and bandwid…

physics.optics2023★ 8 cited

Mid-infrared spectroscopy with a broadly tunable thin-film lithium niobate optical parametric oscillator

Alexander Y. Hwang, Hubert S. Stokowski, Taewon Park +7

Mid-infrared spectroscopy, an important and widespread technique for sensing molecules, has encountered barriers stemming from sources either limited in tuning range or excessively…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Surface Modification and Coherence in Lithium Niobate SAW Resonators

Rachel G. Gruenke, Oliver A. Hitchcock, E. Alex Wollack +5

Lithium niobate is a promising material for developing quantum acoustic technologies due to its strong piezoelectric effect and availability in the form of crystalline thin films o…

quant-ph2022★ 96 cited

Integrated Quantum Optical Phase Sensor

Hubert S. Stokowski, Timothy P. McKenna, Taewon Park +6

The quantum noise of light fundamentally limits optical phase sensors. A semiclassical picture attributes this noise to the random arrival time of photons from a coherent light sou…

quant-ph2022★ 4 cited

Optically heralded microwave photons

Wentao Jiang, Felix M. Mayor, Sultan Malik +5

A quantum network that distributes and processes entanglement would enable powerful new computers and sensors. Optical photons with a frequency of a few hundred terahertz are perha…

physics.optics2022★ 65 cited

Ultra-broadband mid-infrared generation in dispersion-engineered thin-film lithium niobate

Jatadhari Mishra, Marc Jankowski, Alexander Y. Hwang +8

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) is an emerging platform for compact, low-power nonlinear-optical devices, and has been used extensively for near-infrared frequency conversion. Rec…

physics.optics2022★ 33 cited

High-bandwidth CMOS-voltage-level electro-optic modulation of 780 nm light in thin-film lithium niobate

Oguz Tolga Celik, Christopher J. Sarabalis, Felix M. Mayor +7

Integrated photonics operating at visible-near-infrared (VNIR) wavelengths offer scalable platforms for advancing optical systems for addressing atomic clocks, sensors, and quantum…

physics.optics2021★ 66 cited

High efficiency second harmonic generation of blue light on thin film lithium niobate

Taewon Park, Hubert S. Stokowski, Vahid Ansari +4

We demonstrate second harmonic generation of blue light on an integrated thin-film lithium niobate waveguide and observe a conversion efficiency of , si…

physics.optics2021

Mid-infrared nonlinear optics in thin-film lithium niobate on sapphire

Jatadhari Mishra, Timothy P. McKenna, Edwin Ng +7

Periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) waveguides have emerged as a leading platform for highly efficient frequency conversion in the near-infrared. However, the commo…

physics.optics2021★ 118 cited

Ultra-low-power second-order nonlinear optics on a chip

Timothy P. McKenna, Hubert S. Stokowski, Vahid Ansari +7

Second-order nonlinear optical processes are used to convert light from one wavelength to another and to generate quantum entanglement. Creating chip-scale devices to more efficien…

quant-ph2021★ 28 cited

Room-temperature Mechanical Resonator with a Single Added or Subtracted Phonon

Rishi N. Patel, Timothy P. McKenna, Zhaoyou Wang +5

A room-temperature mechanical oscillator undergoes thermal Brownian motion with an amplitude much larger than the amplitude associated with a single phonon of excitation. This moti…

quant-ph2021★ 6 cited

Roadmap on Integrated Quantum Photonics

Galan Moody, Volker J. Sorger, Daniel J. Blumenthal +52

Integrated photonics is at the heart of many classical technologies, from optical communications to biosensors, LIDAR, and data center fiber interconnects. There is strong evidence…

physics.app-ph2020★ 43 cited

Loss channels affecting lithium niobate phononic crystal resonators at cryogenic temperature

E. Alex Wollack, Agnetta Y. Cleland, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola +6

We investigate the performance of microwave-frequency phononic crystal resonators fabricated on thin-film lithium niobate for integration with superconducting quantum circuits. For…

physics.app-ph2020★ 86 cited

Gigahertz phononic integrated circuits on thin-film lithium niobate on sapphire

Felix M. Mayor, Wentao Jiang, Christopher J. Sarabalis +3

Acoustic devices play an important role in classical information processing. The slower speed and lower losses of mechanical waves enable compact and efficient elements for delayin…

physics.optics2020

Acousto-optic modulation in lithium niobate on sapphire

Christopher J. Sarabalis, Timothy P. McKenna, Rishi N. Patel +2

We demonstrate acousto-optic phase modulators in X-cut lithium niobate films on sapphire, detailing the dependence of the piezoelectric and optomechanical coupling coefficients on…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

Cryogenic microwave-to-optical conversion using a triply-resonant lithium niobate on sapphire transducer

Timothy P. McKenna, Jeremy D. Witmer, Rishi N. Patel +6

Quantum networks are likely to have a profound impact on the way we compute and communicate in the future. In order to wire together superconducting quantum processors over kilomet…

quant-ph2019

A silicon-organic hybrid platform for quantum microwave-to-optical transduction

Jeremy D. Witmer, Timothy P. McKenna, Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola +6

Low-loss fiber optic links have the potential to connect superconducting quantum processors together over long distances to form large scale quantum networks. A key component of th…

physics.app-ph2019

Nanobenders: efficient piezoelectric actuators for widely tunable nanophotonics at CMOS-level voltages

Wentao Jiang, Felix M. Mayor, Rishi N. Patel +3

Tuning and reconfiguring nanophotonic components is needed to realize systems incorporating many components. The electrostatic force can deform a structure and tune its optical res…

quant-ph2019★ 277 cited

Efficient bidirectional piezo-optomechanical transduction between microwave and optical frequency

Wentao Jiang, Christopher J. Sarabalis, Yanni D. Dahmani +5

Efficient interconversion of both classical and quantum information between microwave and optical frequency is an important engineering challenge. The optomechanical approach with…

physics.optics2019★ 2 cited

Alignment-free cryogenic optical coupling to an optomechanical crystal

Timothy P. McKenna, Rishi N. Patel, Jeremy D. Witmer +3

The need for highly accurate, labor-intensive optical alignment has been a major hurdle in our ability to leverage the power of complex photonic integrated circuits. There is a str…

physics.optics2019★ 127 cited

Lithium Niobate Piezo-optomechanical Crystals

Wentao Jiang, Rishi N. Patel, Felix M. Mayor +6

Demonstrating a device that efficiently connects light, motion, and microwaves is an outstanding challenge in classical and quantum photonics. We make significant progress in this…

quant-ph2019★ 184 cited

Resolving the energy levels of a nanomechanical oscillator

Patricio Arrangoiz-Arriola, E. Alex Wollack, Zhaoyou Wang +5

The coherent states that describe the classical motion of a mechanical oscillator do not have well-defined energy, but are rather quantum superpositions of equally-spaced energy ei…