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Ultra-wideband electrically-tuned mid-infrared on-chip parametric oscillator

Alexander Y. Hwang, Hubert S. Stokowski, Luke Qi +7

Developing compact, broadband mid-infrared coherent sources for applications in spectroscopy and sensing remains a pressing challenge in photonics. However, material limitations an…

physics.optics2025

Low-power integrated optical parametric amplification via second-harmonic resonance

Devin J. Dean, Taewon Park, Hubert S. Stokowski +6

Optical amplifiers are fundamental to modern photonics, enabling long-distance communications, precision sensing, and quantum information processing. Erbium-doped amplifiers domina…

physics.optics2025

Low-loss, fabrication-tolerant, and highly-tunable Sagnac loop reflectors and Fabry-Pérot cavities on thin-film lithium niobate

Luke Qi, Ali Khalatpour, Jason Herrmann +8

We present low-loss () and power-efficient Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZIs) on thin-film lithium niobate. To accurately measure low MZI losses, we develop a self-calibra…

physics.optics2025

Roughness-Limited Performance in Ultra-Low-Loss Lithium Niobate Cavities

Ali Khalatpour, Luke Qi, Martin M. Fejer +1

Achieving low optical loss is critical for scaling complex photonic systems. Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) offers strong electro-optic and nonlinear properties in a compact plat…

physics.optics2024

Ultrafast second-order nonlinear photonics -- from classical physics to non-Gaussian quantum dynamics

Marc Jankowski, Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng +4

Photonic integrated circuits with second-order () nonlinearities are rapidly scaling to remarkably low powers. At this time, state-of-the-art devices achieve saturated non…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Integrated frequency-modulated optical parametric oscillator

Hubert S. Stokowski, Devin J. Dean, Alexander Y. Hwang +7

Optical frequency combs have revolutionized precision measurement, time-keeping, and molecular spectroscopy. A substantial effort has developed around "microcombs": integrating com…

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…

physics.optics2023★ 24 cited

Substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave detectors: A review of the state of the art

G. D. Cole, S. Ballmer, G. Billingsley +16

In this Perspective we summarize the status of technological development for large-area and low-noise substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs (AlGaAs) crystalline coatings for interferom…

physics.optics2022

Degenerate optical parametric amplification in CMOS silicon

David Heydari, Mircea Catuneanu, Edwin Ng +7

Silicon is a common material for photonics due to its favorable optical properties in the telecom and mid-wave IR bands, as well as compatibility with a wide range of complementary…

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★ 22 cited

Non-equilibrium phase transitions in coupled nonlinear optical resonators

Arkadev Roy, Rajveer Nehra, Carsten Langrock +2

Phase transitions and the associated symmetry breaking are at the heart of many physical phenomena. Coupled systems with multiple interacting degrees of freedom provide a fertile g…

physics.optics2022★ 64 cited

Spectrally separable photon-pair generation in dispersion engineered thin-film lithium niobate

C. J. Xin, Jatadhari Mishra, Changchen Chen +7

Existing nonlinear-optic implementations of pure, unfiltered heralded single-photon sources do not offer the scalability required for densely integrated quantum networks. Additiona…

physics.optics2021★ 37 cited

Temporal Walk-off Induced Dissipative Quadratic Solitons

Arkadev Roy, Rajveer Nehra, Saman Jahani +4

A plethora of applications have recently motivated extensive efforts on the generation of low noise Kerr solitons and coherent frequency combs in various platforms ranging from fib…

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

Quasi-static Optical Parametric Amplification

Marc Jankowski, Nayara Jornod, Carsten Langrock +4

High-gain optical parametric amplification is an important nonlinear process used both as a source of coherent infrared light and as a source of nonclassical light. In this work, w…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Dispersion-engineered nanophotonics: a flexible tool for nonclassical light

Marc Jankowski, Jatadhari Mishra, M. M. Fejer

This article reviews recent progress in quasi-phasematched nonlinear nanophotonics, with a particular focus on dispersion-engineered nonlinear interactions. Throughout th…

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…

physics.optics2021★ 21 cited

Supercontinuum Generation by Saturated Second-Order Nonlinear Interactions

Marc Jankowski, Carsten Langrock, Boris Desiatov +2

We propose a new approach to supercontinuum generation and carrier-envelope-offset detection based on saturated second-order nonlinear interactions in dispersion-engineered nanowav…

physics.optics2020★ 50 cited

Spectral Phase Transitions in Optical Parametric Oscillators

Arkadev Roy, Saman Jahani, Carsten Langrock +2

Spectral behaviors of photonic resonators have been the basis for a range of fundamental studies, with applications in classical and quantum technologies. Driven nonlinear resonato…

physics.optics2020★ 152 cited

Optical parametric oscillation in silicon carbide nanophotonics

Melissa A. Guidry, Ki Youl Yang, Daniil M. Lukin +4

Silicon carbide (SiC) is rapidly emerging as a leading platform for the implementation of nonlinear and quantum photonics. Here, we find that commercial SiC, which hosts a variety…

physics.optics2019★ 12 cited

Ultrabroadband Nonlinear Optics in Nanophotonic Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides

Marc Jankowski, Carsten Langrock, Boris Desiatov +6

Quasi-phasematched interactions in waveguides with quadratic nonlinearities enable highly efficient nonlinear frequency conversion. In this article, we demonstrate the first genera…

physics.optics2017★ 77 cited

Temporal Simultons in Optical Parametric Oscillators

Marc Jankowski, Alireza Marandi, C. R. Phillips +4

We identify and demonstrate a regime of operation in optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) in which the formation of temporal simultons produces stable half-harmonic pulses. Simult…

physics.optics2016★ 46 cited

Reduced models and design principles for half-harmonic generation in synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillators

Ryan Hamerly, Alireza Marandi, Marc Jankowski +3

We develop reduced models that describe half-harmonic generation in a synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillator above threshold, where nonlinearity, dispersion, and group-…