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most citedUltrabroadband thin-film lithium tantalate modulator for high-speed communications

78 citations · 263 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

quant-ph2026

Entanglement Swapping with Integrated Narrowband Photon Sources for Quantum Repeaters

Mingsong Wu, Leili Esmaeilifar, Rui Ning Wang +3

Promising implementations of first generation quantum repeaters are predicted to require atomic-based quantum memory systems interfaced with photonic sources. Integrated photonics…

quant-ph2025

Integrated Telecom Wavelength Heralded Single-Photon Source based on GHz gated detectors

Maria Ana Pereira, Mingsong Wu, Arslan Sajid Raja +5

We introduce a simple and flexible concept for a heralded -- spectrally pure -- single photon source. The scheme uses a probabilistic photon pair source pumped with a CW laser, whe…

physics.optics2025★ 9 cited

High-pulse-energy integrated mode-locked lasers based on a Mamyshev oscillator

Zheru Qiu, Jianqi Hu, Xuan Yang +9

Ultrafast lasers have unlocked numerous advances across science and technology: they enable corneal surgery, reveal chemical reaction dynamics, and underpin optical atomic clocks.…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Heterogeneously integrated lithium tantalate-on-silicon nitride modulators for high-speed communications

Jiachen Cai, Alexander Kotz, Hugo Larocque +7

Driven by the prospects of higher bandwidths for optical interconnects, integrated modulators involving materials beyond those available in silicon manufacturing increasingly rely…

nlin.PS2025

Nonlinear periodic orbit solutions and their bifurcation structure at the origin of soliton hopping in coupled microresonators

Savyaraj Deshmukh, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan +2

Microresonator frequency combs, essential for future integrated optical systems, rely on dissipative Kerr solitons generated in a single microresonator to achieve coherent frequenc…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Narrow-linewidth, piezoelectrically tunable photonic integrated blue laser

Anat Siddharth, Asger B. Gardner, Xinru Ji +8

Frequency-agile lasers operating in the ultraviolet-to-blue spectral range (360-480 nm) are critical enablers for a wide range of technologies, including free-space and underwater…

physics.optics2025

Hyperparametric solitons in nondegenerate optical parametric oscillators

Haizhong Weng, Xinru Ji, Mugahid Ali +7

Dissipative solitons and their associated low-noise, chip-scale frequency combs hold great potential for applications in optical communications, spectroscopy, precision time-keepin…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Copper Damascene Process-Based High-Performance Thin Film Lithium Tantalate Modulators

Mengxin Lin, Zihan Li, Alexander Kotz +4

Interfacing electrical and optical systems is a ubiquitous requirement for modern networks. Competitive footprint, efficiency, and bandwidth figures have propelled interest in depl…

physics.optics2025★ 12 cited

Copper-impurity-free photonic integrated circuits enable deterministic soliton microcombs

Xinru Ji, Xurong Li, Zheru Qiu +5

Chip-scale optical frequency combs based on microresonators (microcombs) enable GHz-THz repetition rates, broad bandwidth, compactness, and compatibility with wafer-scale manufactu…

physics.optics2025★ 14 cited

Arrayed waveguide gratings in lithium tantalate integrated photonics

Shivaprasad U. Hulyal, Jianqi Hu, Chengli Wang +3

Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWGs) are widely used photonic components for splitting and combining different wavelengths of light. They play a key role in wavelength division multip…

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

Full C- and L-band tunable erbium-doped integrated lasers via scalable manufacturing

Xinru Ji, Xuan Yang, Yang Liu +8

Erbium (Er) ions are the gain medium of choice for fiber-based amplifiers and lasers, offering a long excited-state lifetime, slow gain relaxation, low amplification nonlinearity a…

physics.optics2025

Terabit-class coherent communications enabled by an integrated photonics erbium doped amplifier

Di Che, Stefano Grillanda, Yang Liu +7

Coherent technologies have revolutionized optical communications, driving the capacity per fiber to multi-terabit per second (Tb/s) in combination with wavelength division multiple…

physics.optics2024★ 6 cited

Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation (OAWG) Using Actively Phase-Stabilized Spectral Stitching

Daniel Drayss, Dengyang Fang, Alban Sherifaj +10

The conventional way of generating optical waveforms relies on the in-phase and quadrature (IQ) modulation of a continuous wave (CW) laser tone. In this case, the bandwidth of the…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Monolithic piezoelectrically tunable hybrid integrated laser with sub-fiber laser coherence

Andrey Voloshin, Anat Siddharth, Simone Bianconi +8

Ultra-low noise lasers are essential tools in a wide variety of applications, including data communication, light detection and ranging (LiDAR), quantum computing and sensing, and…

quant-ph2024★ 14 cited

Electrons herald non-classical light

Germaine Arend, Guanhao Huang, Armin Feist +9

Free electrons are a widespread and universal source of electromagnetic fields. The past decades witnessed ever-growing control over many aspects of electron-generated radiation, f…

physics.optics2024

Ultrafast tunable photonic integrated Pockels extended-DBR laser

Anat Siddharth, Simone Bianconi, Rui Ning Wang +5

Frequency-agile lasers that can simultaneously feature low noise characteristics as well as fast mode hop-free frequency tuning are keystone components for applications ranging fro…

physics.optics2024★ 78 cited

Ultrabroadband thin-film lithium tantalate modulator for high-speed communications

Chengli Wang, Dengyang Fang, Alexander Kotz +7

The continuous growth of global data traffic over the past three decades, along with advances in disaggregated computing architectures, presents significant challenges for optical…

physics.optics2024★ 37 cited

Foundry compatible, efficient wafer-scale manufacturing of ultra-low loss, high-density SiN photonic integrated circuits

Xinru Ji, Rui Ning Wang, Yang Liu +3

Silicon nitride (SiN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) have shown low linear loss, negligible nonlinear loss, and high power handling over traditional silicon photonics.…

physics.optics2024★ 70 cited

Integrated Triply Resonant Electro-Optic Frequency Comb in Lithium Tantalate

Junyin Zhang, Chengli Wang, Connor Denney +11

Integrated frequency comb generators based on Kerr parametric oscillation have led to chip-scale, gigahertz-spaced combs with new applications spanning hyperscale telecommunication…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Large-scale photonic chip based pulse interleaver for low-noise microwave generation

Zheru Qiu, Neetesh Singh, Yang Liu +4

Microwaves generated by optical techniques have demonstrated unprecedentedly low noise and hold significance in various applications such as communication, radar, instrumentation,…

physics.optics2024★ 5 cited

An ultra-broadband photonic-chip-based traveling-wave parametric amplifier

Nikolai Kuznetsov, Alberto Nardi, Johann Riemensberger +4

Optical amplification, crucial for modern communication and data center interconnects, primarily relies on erbium-doped fiber amplifiers (EDFAs) to enhance signals without distorti…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Unifying frequency metrology across microwave, optical, and free-electron domains

Yujia Yang, Paolo Cattaneo, Arslan S. Raja +6

Frequency metrology lies at the heart of precision measurement. Optical frequency combs provide a coherent link uniting the microwave and optical domains in the electromagnetic spe…

physics.optics2023★ 5 cited

Hydrogen-free low-temperature silica for next generation integrated photonics

Zheru Qiu, Zihan Li, Rui Ning Wang +4

The advances in novel low-loss "on insulator" integrated photonics platforms beyond silicon, such as thin-film LiNbO3, LiTaO3, GaP and BaTiO3 have demonstrated major potential acro…