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20202025
most citedGroup-velocity dispersion engineering of tantala integrated photonics

40 citations · 43 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Monolithic 3D integration of tantalum pentoxide photonics on arbitrary substrates

Grant M. Brodnik, Grisha Spektor, Lindell M. Williams +6

The photonics landscape encompasses a wide scope of material platforms, each optimized for specific functionalities, yet no platform meets the demands of all current and evolving p…

physics.optics2025

Amorphous metal oxide mixtures for high-Q integrated nonlinear photonics

Alexa R. Carollo, Atasi Dan, Haixin Liu +3

Choice of material is ubiquitous in integrated photonics to design device properties, whereas changing material composition is much less common. With phase matching as an additiona…

physics.optics2025

Mixed Precision Photonic Computing with 3D Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits

Georgios Charalampous, Rui Chen, Mehmet Berkay On +12

We propose advancing photonic in-memory computing through three-dimensional photonic-electronic integrated circuits using phase-change materials (PCM) and AlGaAs-CMOS technology. T…

physics.optics2025

Activating high-power parametric oscillation in photonic-crystal resonators

Grant M. Brodnik, Lindell M. Williams, Haixin Liu +4

By engineering the mode spectrum of a Kerr microresonator, we selectively activate nonlinear phase matching amongst broadband parametric gain. At threshold, optical parametric osci…

physics.optics2025

Implementing photonic-crystal resonator frequency combs in a photonics foundry

Haixin Liu, Ivan Dickson, Alin Antohe +6

We explore an AIM Photonics silicon-nitride platform to fabricate photonic-crystal resonators for generating optical parametric oscillators (OPO) and soliton microcombs. Our approa…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Nanophotonic oscillators for laser conversion beyond an octave

Grant M. Brodnik, Haixin Liu, David R. Carlson +2

Many uses of lasers place the highest importance on access to specific wavelength bands. For example, mobilizing optical-atomic clocks for a leap in sensing requires compact lasers…

physics.optics2023

Threshold and laser-conversion in nanostructured-resonator parametric oscillators

Haixin Liu, Grant M. Brodnik, Jizhao Zang +3

We explore optical parametric oscillation (OPO) in nanophotonic resonators, enabling arbitrary, nonlinear phase-matching and nearly lossless control of energy conversion. Such pris…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Tunable lasers with optical-parametric oscillation in photonic-crystal resonators

Jennifer A. Black, Grant Brodnik, Haixin Liu +5

By design access to laser wavelength, especially with integrated photonics, is critical to advance quantum sensors like optical clocks and quantum-information systems, and open opp…

physics.optics2021

Optical synthesis by spectral translation

Jennifer A. Black, Zachary L. Newman, Su-Peng Yu +2

Optical-frequency synthesizers are lasers stabilized and programmed from a microwave clock for applications, especially in fundamental measurements and spectroscopy, optical-commun…

physics.optics2020★ 40 cited

Group-velocity dispersion engineering of tantala integrated photonics

Jennifer A. Black, Richelle Streater, Kieran F. Lamee +3

Designing integrated photonics, especially to leverage Kerr-nonlinear optics, requires accurate and precise knowledge of refractive index across the visible to infrared spectral ra…