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most citedLithium niobate micro-disk resonators of quality factors above 10^7

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physics.optics2026

Highly-efficient, narrow-linewidth Brillouin microlasers implemented in compact thin-film lithium niobate microresonators

Yingnuo Qiu, Chuntao Li, Renhong Gao +5

Stimulated Brillouin microlasers offer chip-scale light sources with high spectral purity and low phase noise--key attributes for applications spanning precision metrology, quantum…

physics.optics2026

Monolithic tantalum pentoxide microrings with intrinsic Q factors exceeding 4X10(6)

Xinzhi Zheng, Yixuan Yang, Renhong Gao +3

Tantalum pentoxide (Ta2O5), as a silicon-photonic-compatible material platform, has garnered significant attention for high-performance integrated photonics due to its exceptional…

physics.optics2025

Highly efficient multi-chromatic Raman microlasers from cavity polygon modes on thin-film lithium niobate platform

Yixuan Yang, Chuntao Li, Renhong Gao +5

The integration of stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) and second order nonlinearity in non-centrosymmetric photonic microresonators presents a highly promising solution for developi…

physics.optics2025

Simultaneous generation of Raman-assisted Soliton Microcombs and Tunable Multi-chromatic Raman Microlasers in Single Monolithic Thin-film Lithium Niobate Microrings

Yingnuo Qiu, Renhong Gao, Chuntao Li +9

High-performance integrated broadband coherent light sources are essential for advanced applications in high-bandwidth data processing and chip-scale metrology, yet remain challeng…

physics.optics2025

Low-loss thin-film periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides fabricated by femtosecond laser photolithography

Guanghui Zhao, Jintian Lin, Renhong Gao +10

Periodically poled lithium niobate on insulator (PPLNOI) ridge waveguides are critical photonic components for both classical and quantum information processing. However, dry etchi…

physics.optics2024

Second harmonic generation with 48% conversion efficiency from cavity polygon modes in a monocrystalline lithium niobate microdisk resonator

Chao Sun, Jielei Ni, Chuntao Li +10

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) based optical microresonators offer large nonlinear coefficient d_33 and high light-wave confinement, allowing highly efficient second-order optica…

physics.optics2024

Efficient transverse multi-wave interactions up to six-wave mixing in a high-Q lithium niobate microresonator

Chuntao Li, Ni Yao, Huakang Yu +6

High-order nonlinear optical processes beyond four-wave mixing serve as fundamental tools for advancing photonic technologies, yet their practical implementation remains challengin…

physics.optics2023

Integrated multi-color Raman microlasers with ultra-low pump levels in single high-Q lithium niobate microdisks

Guanghui Zhao, Jintian Lin, Botao Fu +8

Photonic integrated Raman microlasers, particularly discrete multi-color lasers which are crucial for extending the emission wavelength range of chip-scale laser sources to much sh…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Erbium-ytterbium co-doped lithium niobate single-mode microdisk laser with an ultralow threshold of 1 uW

Minghui Li, Renhong Gao, Chuntao Li +9

We demonstrate single-mode microdisk lasers in the telecom band with ultra-low thresholds on erbium-ytterbium co-doped thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). The active microdisk were f…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Generation of Kerr soliton microcomb in a normally dispersed lithium niobate microdisk resonator by mode trimming

Botao Fu, Renhong Gao, Ni Yao +6

Anomalous microresonator dispersion is mandatory for Kerr soliton microcomb formation, which depends critically on the geometry of the microresonator and can hardly be tuned after…

physics.optics2023

Ultra-high Q lithium niobate microring monolithically fabricated by photolithography assisted chemo-mechanical etching

Chuntao Li, Jianglin Guan, Jintian Lin +5

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has been considered as one of the most important platforms for constructing high-performance photonic integrated devices such as electro-optic modu…

physics.optics2022★ 7 cited

Monolithically integrated high-power narrow-bandwidth microdisk laser

Jianglin Guan, Chuntao Li, Renhong Gao +7

Integrated on-chip microdisk lasers have attracted great attention as a light source of compact size, low lasing threshold and narrow bandwidth. However, challenges remain unresolv…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Modes trimming and clustering in a weakly perturbed high-Q whispering gallery microresonator

Botao Fu, Renhong Gao, Jintian Lin +6

In general, a high-Q microresonator can accommodate abundant whispering gallery modes (WGMs) with the mode number increasing with the dimensional sizes of the microresonator. Remov…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Electro-optically tunable low phase-noise microwave synthesizer in an active lithium niobate microdisk

Renhong Gao, Botao Fu, Ni Yao +7

Photonic-based low-phase-noise microwave generation with real-time frequency tuning is crucial for a broad spectrum of subjects, including next-generation wireless communications,…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Coherent mode-combined ultra-narrow-linewidth single-mode micro-disk laser

Jintian Lin, Saeed Farajollahi, Zhiwei Fang +10

Integrated single-mode microlasers with ultra-narrow linewidths play a game-changing role in a broad spectrum of applications ranging from coherent communication and LIDAR to metro…

physics.optics2021

Lithium niobate microring with ultra-high Q factor above 10^8

Renhong Gao, Ni Yao, Jianglin Guan +6

We demonstrate ultra-high Q factor microring resonators close to the intrinsic material absorption limit on lithium niobate on insulator. The microrings are fabricated on pristine…

physics.optics2021★ 52 cited

On-chip ultra-narrow-linewidth single-mode microlaser on lithium niobate on insulator

Renhong Gao, Jianglin Guan, Ni Yao +8

We report an on-chip single mode microlaser with low-threshold fabricated on Erbium doped lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI). The single mode laser emission at 1550.5 nm wavelengt…

physics.optics2021★ 80 cited

Broadband highly efficient nonlinear optical processes in on-chip integrated lithium niobate microdisk resonators of Q-factor above 10^8

Renhong Gao, Haisu Zhang, Fang Bo +9

We demonstrated broadband highly efficient optical nonlinear processes in on-chip integrated lithium niobate (LN) microdisk resonators. The Q factors of the micro-resonators fabric…

quant-ph2020★ 16 cited

Photon retention in coherently excited nitrogen ions

Jinping Yao, Luojia Wang, Jinming Chen +12

Quantum coherence in quantum optics is an essential part of optical information processing and light manipulation. Alkali metal vapors, despite the numerous shortcomings, are tradi…

physics.optics2020

A spectrally bright wavelength-switchable vacuum ultraviolet source driven by quantum coherence in strong-field-ionized molecules

Yuexin Wan, Zhaoxiang Liu, Jinping Yao +6

We report generation of spectrally bright vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) and deep UV (DUV) coherent radiations driven by quantum coherence in tunnel-ionized carbon monoxide (CO) molecule…

physics.app-ph2019

High-precision measurement of a propagation loss of single-mode optical waveguides on lithium niobate on insulator

Jintian Lin, Junxia Zhou, Rongbo Wu +6

We demonstrate fabrication of single-mode optical waveguides on lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) by optical patterning combined with chemo-mechanical polishing. The fabricated L…

physics.app-ph2018

Low-loss Lithium Niobate on Insulator (LNOI) Waveguides of a 10 cm-length and a Sub-nanometer Surface Roughness

Rongbo Wu, Min Wang, Jian Xu +9

We develop a technique for realizing lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) waveguides of a multi-centimeter-length with a propagation loss as low as 0.027 dB/cm. Our technique relies…

physics.app-ph2018★ 2 cited

Highly-efficient second and third harmonic generation in a monocrystalline lithium niobate microresonator

Jintian Lin, Yao Ni, Zhenzhong Hao +10

Nonlinear optics in whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) microresonators have attracted much attention. Owing to strong confinement of the light in a small volume, a WGM microresonator ca…

physics.optics2018

Electronic quantum coherence induced by strong field molecular ionization

Jinming Chen, Jinping Yao, Haisu Zhang +9

The existence of electronic coherence can fundamentally change the scenario of nonlinear interaction of light with quantum systems such as atoms and molecules, which, however, has…