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most citedPeriodically poled thin film lithium niobate microring resonators with a second-harmonic generation efficiency of 250,000%/W

444 citations · 1.2k across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2026

Chip-based f-2f interferometry in periodically tapered lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides

Xinyan Chi, Ruoao Yang, Zhiyuan Li +4

Nanophotonic supercontinuum generation offers a practical route to chip-based f-2f interferometry by leveraging coexisting chi(2) and chi(3) nonlinearities. In conventional uniform…

physics.optics2021★ 28 cited

Efficient and tunable blue light generation using lithium niobate nonlinear photonics

Ayed Al Sayem, Yubo Wang, Juanjuan Lu +3

Thin film lithium niobate (LN) has recently emerged as a playground for chip-scale nonlinear optics and leads to highly efficient frequency conversions from near infrared to near-v…

physics.app-ph2020★ 152 cited

III-Nitride nanophotonics for beyond-octave soliton generation and self-referencing

Xianwen Liu, Zheng Gong, Alexander W. Bruch +3

Frequency microcombs, successors to mode-locked laser and fiber combs, enable miniature rulers of light for applications including precision metrology, molecular fingerprinting, an…

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.optics2020★ 50 cited

Photonic dissipation control for Kerr soliton generation in strongly Raman-active media

Zheng Gong, Ming Li, Xianwen Liu +6

Microcavity solitons enable miniaturized coherent frequency comb sources. However, the formation of microcavity solitons can be disrupted by stimulated Raman scattering (SRS), part…

physics.optics2020★ 172 cited

Pockels Soliton Microcomb

Alexander W. Bruch, Xianwen Liu, Zheng Gong +4

Kerr soliton microcombs have recently emerged as a prominent topic in integrated photonics and enabled new horizons for optical frequency metrology. Kerr soliton microcombs, as its…

physics.optics2019★ 444 cited

Periodically poled thin film lithium niobate microring resonators with a second-harmonic generation efficiency of 250,000%/W

Juanjuan Lu, Joshua B. Surya, Xianwen Liu +4

Lithium niobate (LN), dubbed by many as the silicon of photonics, has recently risen to the forefront of chip-scale nonlinear optics research since its demonstration as an ultralow…

physics.optics2019

On-chip microring optical parametric oscillator

Alexander W. Bruch, Xianwen Liu, Joshua B. Surya +2

Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) have been widely used for decades as tunable, narrow linewidth, and coherent light sources for reaching long wavelengths and are attractive fo…

physics.optics2019★ 63 cited

Beyond 100 THz-spanning ultraviolet frequency combs in a non-centrosymmetric crystalline waveguide

Xianwen Liu, Alexander W. Bruch, Juanjuan Lu +6

Ultraviolet frequency combs enable applications ranging from precision spectroscopy to atomic clocks by addressing the electronic transitions of atoms and molecules. Access to ultr…

physics.app-ph2018★ 113 cited

Ultra-high-Q UV microring resonators based on single-crystalline AlN platform

Xianwen Liu, Alexander W. Bruch, Zheng Gong +6

Development of low-loss photonic components in the ultraviolet (UV) band will open new prospects for classical and quantum optics. Compared with other integrated platforms, aluminu…

physics.optics2018★ 122 cited

17,000 %/W Second Harmonic Conversion Efficiency in Single Crystalline Aluminum Nitride Microresonators

Alexander W. Bruch, Xianwen Liu, Xiang Guo +6

High quality factor optical microcavities have been employed in a variety of material systems to enhance nonlinear optical interactions. While single-crystalline aluminum nitride m…

physics.optics2016★ 1 cited

Broadband frequency comb generation in aluminum nitride-on-sapphire microresonators

Xianwen Liu, Changzheng Sun, Bing Xiong +10

Development of chip-scale optical frequency comb with the coverage from ultra-violet (UV) to mid-infrared (MIR) wavelength is of great significance. To expand the comb spectrum int…

physics.optics2016★ 1 cited

Continuous-wave Raman Lasing in Aluminum Nitride Microresonators

Xianwen Liu, Changzheng Sun, Bing Xiong +10

We report the first investigation on continuous-wave Raman lasing in high-quality-factor aluminum nitride (AlN) microring resonators. Although wurtzite AlN is known to exhibit six…