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20192025
most citedMitigating photorefractive effect in thin-filmlithium niobate microring resonators

94 citations · 326 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

physics.app-ph2025

Towards terahertz nanomechanics

Jiacheng Xie, Weifeng Wu, Mohan Shen +2

Advancing electromechanical resonators towards terahertz frequencies opens vast bandwidths for phononic signal processing. In quantum phononics, mechanical resonators at these freq…

quant-ph2025

A kilometer photonic link connecting superconducting circuits in two dilution refrigerators

Yiyu Zhou, Yufeng Wu, Chunzhen Li +4

Superconducting quantum processors are a leading platform for implementing practical quantum computation algorithms. Although superconducting quantum processors with hundreds of qu…

physics.optics2024

High-efficiency, cryogenic-compatible grating couplers on an AlN-on-sapphire platform through bottom-side coupling

Yiyu Zhou, Mohan Shen, Chunzhen Li +2

Sapphire is a commonly used substrate for wide-bandgap III-nitride photonic materials. However, its relatively high refractive index results in low transmission efficiency in grati…

physics.optics2024

Symmetric Second-Harmonic Generation in Sub-wavelength Periodically Poled Thin Film Lithium Niobate

Fengyan Yang, Juanjuan Lu, Mohan Shen +2

Second harmonic generation (SHG) extensively employs periodically poled nonlinear crystals through forward quasi-phase-matching to achieve efficient frequency conversion. As poling…

physics.app-ph2024

Non-contact excitation of multi-GHz lithium niobate electromechanical resonators

Danqing Wang, Jiacheng Xie, Yu Guo +2

The demand for high-performance electromechanical resonators is ever-growing across diverse applications, ranging from sensing and time-keeping to advanced communication devices. A…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Unveiling the Pockels Coefficient of Ferroelectric Nitride ScAlN

Guangcanlan Yang, Haochen Wang, Sai Mu +7

Nitride ferroelectrics have recently emerged as promising alternatives to oxide ferroelectrics due to their compatibility with mainstream semiconductor processing. ScAlN, in partic…

physics.optics2024

Sub-terahertz optomechanics

Jiacheng Xie, Mohan Shen, Hong X. Tang

We demonstrate optomechanics in the sub-terahertz regime. An optical racetrack resonator, patterned from thin-film lithium niobate, is suspended to support mechanical structures os…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Photonic link from single flux quantum circuits to room temperature

Mohan Shen, Jiacheng Xie, Yuntao Xu +5

Broadband, energy-efficient signal transfer between cryogenic and room-temperature environment has been a major bottleneck for superconducting quantum and classical logic circuits.…

quant-ph2022★ 70 cited

Controlling single rare earth ion emission in an electro-optical nanocavity

Likai Yang, Sihao Wang, Mohan Shen +2

Rare earth emitters enable critical quantum resources including spin qubits, single photon sources, and quantum memories. Yet, probing of single ions remains challenging due to low…

physics.app-ph2022

Light-induced dynamic frequency shifting of microwave photons in a superconducting electro-optic converter

Yuntao Xu, Wei Fu, Yiyu Zhou +4

Hybrid superconducting-photonic microresonators are a promising platform for realizing microwave-to-optical transduction. However, the absorption of scattered photons by the superc…

quant-ph2022

Unveiling photon statistics with a 100-pixel photon-number-resolving detector

Risheng Cheng, Yiyu Zhou, Sihao Wang +3

Single-photon detectors are ubiquitous in quantum information science and quantum sensing. They are key enabling technologies for numerous scientific discoveries and fundamental te…

physics.optics2022

SmartCut Er:LiNbO3 with high optical coherence enabling optical thickness control

Sihao Wang, Likai Yang, Mohan Shen +5

Integrated photonics capable of incorporating rare earth ions with high optical coherence is desirable for realizing efficient quantum transducers, compact quantum memories, and hy…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Monolithic Kerr and electro-optic hybrid microcombs

Zheng Gong, Mohan Shen, Juanjuan Lu +2

Advances in microresonator-based soliton generation promise chip-scale integration of optical frequency comb for applications spanning from time keeping to frequency synthesis. Min…

physics.optics2020★ 94 cited

Mitigating photorefractive effect in thin-filmlithium niobate microring resonators

Yuntao Xu, Mohan Shen, Juanjuan Lu +3

Thin-film lithium niobate is an attractive integrated photonics platform due to its low optical loss and favorable optical nonlinear and electro-optic properties. However, in appli…

quant-ph2020★ 56 cited

Ground-state Pulsed Cavity Electro-optics for Microwave-to-optical Conversion

Wei Fu, Mingrui Xu, Xianwen Liu +9

In the development of quantum microwave-to-optical (MO) converters, excessive noise induced by the parametric optical drive remains a major challenge at milli-Kelvin temperatures.…

physics.app-ph2020★ 31 cited

High-acoustic-index-contrast phononic circuits: numerical modeling

Wance Wang, Mohan Shen, Chang-Ling Zou +3

We numerically model key building blocks of a phononic integrated circuit that enable phonon routing in high-acoustic-index waveguides. Our particular focus is on Gallium Nitride-o…

physics.optics2019★ 70 cited

Incorporation of erbium ions into thin-film lithium niobate integrated photonics

Sihao Wang, Likai Yang, Risheng Cheng +5

As an active material with favorable linear and nonlinear optical properties, thin-film lithium niobate has demonstrated its potential in integrated photonics. Integration with rar…