5 papers
Nanophotonic dispersion engineering in tantala-based microresonators with ultralow-loss claddings
Alexa R. Carollo, Atasi Dan, Jizhao Zang +3
Integrated photonics optimized to leverage low loss, nonlinear-optical processes and optoelectronic integration requires robust optical cladding materials and associated fabricatio…
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…
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…
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…
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…