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most citedRecord Photon Information Efficiency with Optical Clock Transmission and Recovery of 12.5 bits/photon over an Optical Channel with 77 dB Loss

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physics.optics2026

Performance of Capacitively Loaded RF Electrodes on SiO2/Si Substrates for High-Speed Electro-Optic Modulators

Ayed Sayem, Ting-Chen Hu, Mark Cappuzzo +3

We experimentally investigate conventional and capacitively loaded traveling-wave RF electrodes fabricated on thermally grown SiO on high-resistivity silicon substrates for hig…

physics.optics2026

Unveiling charge dynamics on the generation of high extinction wide pulse generation on thin-film lithium tantalate

Ayed Al Sayem, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Ting-Chen Hu +6

We experimentally demonstrate high-extinction optical pulse generation in thin-film lithium tantalate (TFLT), achieving a wide range of pulse widths with sharp rise and fall edges,…

physics.optics2026

Stable thin-film lithium tantalate modulators operating at high temperature for uncooled operation

Ayed Al Sayem, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Ting-Chen Hu +4

We demonstrate stable operation of a thin-film lithium tantalate (TFLT) modulator at very high operating temperatures. We show that the electro-optic modulation and bandwidth of th…

physics.optics2026

High bandwidth traveling wave electro-optic modulator at 1μm on thin-film lithium tantalate

Ayed Al Sayem, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Ting-Chen Hu +4

We present the first experimental demonstration of a high-bandwidth thin-film lithium tantalate (TFLT) electro-optic modulator operating at 1 μm, with a Vπ of 2.4 V, and less than…

physics.optics2026

High-power handling and bias stability of thin-film Lithium Tantalate microring and coupling resonators

Ayed Sayem, Shiekh Zia Uddin, Ting-Chen Hu +4

In this paper, we demonstrate the ultra-high-power handling capability and DC bias stability of optical microring and electro-optic (EO) coupling resonators on the thin-film lithiu…

physics.optics2025

A tunable FP Perot coupling interferometer on thin-film lithium niobate

Ayed Al Sayem, Heqing Huang, Ting-Chen Hu +4

We experimentally show an electro-optic tunable Fabry-Perot cavity on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). Instead of tuning the cavity phase and thus resonant frequency, we demonstra…

physics.optics2024

Dual-Wavelength -OFDR Using a Hybrid-Integrated Laser Stabilized to an Integrated SiN Coil Resonator

Mohamad Hossein Idjadi, Stefano Grillanda, Nicolas Fontaine +11

We demonstrate dual-wavelength distributed acoustic sensing over 37 km of standard single-mode fiber using -OFDR, utilizing a scalable hybrid-integrated dual-wavelength laser ch…

physics.optics2024

Hybrid-Integrated Dual-Wavelength Laser Frequency Locked to an Integrated Coil-Resonator for Optical Fiber Sensing

Mohamad Hossein Idjadi, Stefano Grillanda, Nicolas Fontaine +7

We demonstrate dual-frequency stabilization of a hybrid-integrated multi-channel laser to an integrated high Q-factor silicon nitride (SiN) coil resonator with more than 40 dB freq…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Record Photon Information Efficiency with Optical Clock Transmission and Recovery of 12.5 bits/photon over an Optical Channel with 77 dB Loss

René-Jean Essiambre, Cheng Guo, Sai Kanth Dacha +18

We experimentally demonstrate optical detection at 12.5~bits per incident photon, 9.4~dB higher than the theoretical limit of conventional coherent detection. A single laser transm…

physics.optics2023

Unveiling the origins of quasi-phase matching spectral imperfections in thin-film lithium niobate frequency doublers

Jie Zhao, Xiaoting Li, Ting-Chen Hu +10

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) based frequency doublers have been widely recognized as essential components for both classical and quantum optical communications. Nonetheless, th…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

A surface-normal photodetector as nonlinear activation function in diffractive optical neural networks

Farshid Ashtiani, Mohamad Hossein Idjadi, Ting-Chen Hu +7

Optical neural networks (ONNs) enable high speed parallel and energy efficient processing compared to conventional digital electronic counterparts. However, realizing large scale s…