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most citedHybrid Silicon Photonic-Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Mach-Zehnder Modulator Beyond 100 GHz Bandwidth

339 citations · 960 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

High-performance Hybrid Lithium Niobate Electro-optic Modulators Integrated with Low-loss Silicon Nitride Waveguides on a Wafer-scale Silicon Photonics Platform

Arif Rahman, Forrest Valdez, Viphretuo Mere +3

Heterogeneously-integrated electro-optic modulators (EOM) are demonstrated using the hybrid-mode concept, incorporating thin-film lithium niobate (LN) by bonding with silicon nitri…

physics.optics2022

100 GHz Bandwidth, 1 Volt Near-infrared Electro-optic Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Forrest Valdez, Viphretuo Mere, Shayan Mookherjea

An integrated hybrid thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) is shown at near-infrared wavelengths. The design uses TFLN bonded to planarized si…

physics.optics2022★ 55 cited

Integrated O- and C-band Silicon-Lithium Niobate Mach-Zehnder Modulators with 100 GHz Bandwidth, Low Voltage, and Low Loss

Forrest Valdez, Viphretuo Mere, Xiaoxi Wang +1

Broadband integrated thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) electro-optic modulators (EOM) are desirable for optical communications and signal processing in both the O-band (1310 nm) and…

physics.optics2022★ 81 cited

110 GHz, 110 mW Hybrid Silicon-Lithium Niobate Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Forrest Valdez, Viphretuo Mere, Xiaoxi Wang +9

High bandwidth, low voltage electro-optic modulators with high optical power handling capability are important for improving the performance of analog optical communications and RF…

quant-ph2021★ 6 cited

Roadmap on Integrated Quantum Photonics

Galan Moody, Volker J. Sorger, Daniel J. Blumenthal +52

Integrated photonics is at the heart of many classical technologies, from optical communications to biosensors, LIDAR, and data center fiber interconnects. There is strong evidence…

physics.app-ph2019★ 45 cited

Second harmonic microscopy of poled x-cut thin film lithium niobate: Understanding the contrast mechanism

Michael Ruesing, Jie Zhao, Shayan Mookherjea

Thin film lithium niobate is of great recent interest and an understanding of periodically poled thin-films is crucial for both fundamental physics and device developments. Second-…

physics.optics2018★ 339 cited

Hybrid Silicon Photonic-Lithium Niobate Electro-Optic Mach-Zehnder Modulator Beyond 100 GHz Bandwidth

Peter O. Weigel, Jie Zhao, Kelvin Fang +11

Electro-optic modulation, the imprinting of a radio-frequency (RF) waveform on an optical carrier, is one of the most important photonics functions, being crucial for high-bandwidt…

quant-ph2017★ 136 cited

Silicon Photonic Entangled Photon-Pair and Heralded Single Photon Generation with CAR 12,000 and 0.006

Chaoxuan Ma, Xiaoxi Wang, Vikas Anant +3

We report measurements of time-frequency entangled photon pairs and heralded single photons at 1550~nm wavelengths generated using a microring resonator pumped optically by a diode…

physics.optics2016★ 9 cited

Generating photon pairs from a silicon microring resonator using an electronic step recovery diode for pump pulse generation

Marc Savanier, Shayan Mookherjea

Generation of photon pairs from compact, manufacturable and inexpensive silicon (Si) photonic devices at room temperature may help develop practical applications of quantum photoni…

physics.optics2015★ 74 cited

Photon pair generation from compact silicon microring resonators using microwatt-level pump powers

Marc Savanier, Ranjeet Kumar, Shayan Mookherjea

Microring resonators made from silicon are becoming a popular microscale device format for generating photon pairs at telecommunications wavelengths at room temperature. In compact…

physics.optics2015

Hybrid Lithium Niobate and Silicon Photonic Waveguides

Peter O. Weigel, Marc Savanier, Christopher DeRose +5

We describe a hybrid lithium niobate (LN) / silicon (Si) optical waveguiding platform at near infrared wavelengths. Various optical circuit elements, such as waveguides, bends, and…

physics.optics2013

Wide-span and tunable-wavelength photon pairs around 1.55 μm from a silicon nanophotonic chip

Ranjeet Kumar, Jun Rong Ong, John Recchio +2

Using a compact optically-pumped silicon nanophotonic chip consisting of coupled silicon microrings, we generate photon pairs in multiple pairs of wavelengths around 1.55 μm. The w…

quant-ph2012★ 49 cited

Quantum light generation on a silicon chip using waveguides and resonators

Jun Rong Ong, Shayan Mookherjea

Integrated optical devices may replace bulk crystal or fiber based assemblies with a more compact and controllable photon pair and heralded single photon source and generate quantu…

quant-ph2012★ 147 cited

Telecommunications-band heralded single photons from a silicon nanophotonic chip

Marcelo Davanco, Jun Rong Ong, Andrea Bahgat Shehata +7

We demonstrate heralded single photon generation in a CMOS-compatible silicon nanophotonic device. The strong modal confinement and slow group velocity provided by a coupled resona…

physics.optics2001★ 16 cited

Analysis of Optical Pulse Propagation with ABCD Matrices

Shayan Mookherjea, Amnon Yariv

We review and extend the analogies between Gaussian pulse propagation and Gaussian beam diffraction. In addition to the well-known parallels between pulse dispersion in optical fib…