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most citedIntegrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

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physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Frequency comb generation via synchronous pumped resonator on thin-film lithium niobate

Rebecca Cheng, Mengjie Yu, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari +4

Resonator-based optical frequency comb generation is an enabling technology for a myriad of applications ranging from communications to precision spectroscopy. These frequency comb…

physics.optics2022★ 280 cited

Integrated Electro-Optic Isolator on Thin Film Lithium Niobate

Mengjie Yu, Rebecca Cheng, Christian Reimer +9

Optical isolator is an indispensable component of almost any optical system and is used to protect a laser from unwanted reflections for phase-stable coherent operation. The develo…

physics.optics2022★ 144 cited

Reduced Material Loss in Thin-film Lithium Niobate Waveguides

Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Guanhao Huang, Lingyan He +12

Thin-film lithium niobate has shown promise for scalable applications ranging from single-photon sources to high-bandwidth data communication systems. Realization of the next gener…

physics.optics2021★ 84 cited

Spectral control of nonclassical light using an integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator

Di Zhu, Changchen Chen, Mengjie Yu +11

Manipulating the frequency and bandwidth of nonclassical light is essential for implementing frequency-encoded/multiplexed quantum computation, communication, and networking protoc…

physics.optics2021★ 6 cited

Femtosecond Pulse Generation via an Integrated Electro-Optic Time Lens

Mengjie Yu, Christian Reimer, David Barton +12

Integrated femtosecond pulse and frequency comb sources are critical components for a wide range of applications. The leading approaches for on-chip pulse generation rely on mode l…

physics.optics2021★ 218 cited

High-efficiency and broadband electro-optic frequency combs enabled by coupled micro-resonators

Yaowen Hu, Mengjie Yu, Brandon Buscaino +8

Developments in integrated photonics have led to stable, compact, and broadband comb generators that support a wide range of applications. Current on-chip comb generators, however,…

physics.app-ph2021★ 165 cited

Electrically-pumped high-power laser transmitter integrated on thin-film lithium niobate

Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Dylan Renaud, Rebecca Cheng +8

Integrated thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics has emerged as a promising platform for realization of high-performance chip-scale optical systems. Of particular importance a…

physics.optics2021★ 1.5k cited

Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

Di Zhu, Linbo Shao, Mengjie Yu +12

Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for decades: from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of th…

physics.app-ph2020★ 34 cited

Breaking voltage-bandwidth limits in integrated lithium niobate modulators using micro-structured electrodes

Prashanta Kharel, Christian Reimer, Kevin Luke +2

Electro-optic modulators with low voltage and large bandwidth are crucial for both analog and digital communications. Recently, thin-film lithium niobate modulators have enable dra…

physics.app-ph2020★ 14 cited

High-Q Lithium Niobate Microcavities and Their Applications

Cheng Wang, Mian Zhang, Marko Lončar

Lithium niobate (LN) is an excellent nonlinear optical and electro-optic material that has found many applications in classical nonlinear optics, optical fiber communications and q…

physics.app-ph2020★ 196 cited

Wafer-scale low-loss lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

Kevin Luke, Prashanta Kharel, Christian Reimer +3

Thin-film lithium niobate (LN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) could enable ultrahigh performance in electro-optic and nonlinear optical devices. To date, realizations have bee…

physics.optics2020★ 205 cited

Reconfigurable electro-optic frequency shifter

Yaowen Hu, Mengjie Yu, Di Zhu +7

Here we demonstrate an on-chip electro-optic frequency shifter that is precisely controlled using only a single-tone microwave signal. This is accomplished by engineering the densi…

quant-ph2020★ 1 cited

Cavity electro-optics in thin-film lithium niobate for efficient microwave-to-optical transduction

Jeffrey Holzgrafe, Neil Sinclair, Di Zhu +6

Linking superconducting quantum devices to optical fibers via microwave-optical quantum transducers may enable large scale quantum networks. For this application, transducers based…

physics.app-ph2020★ 80 cited

An integrated lithium-niobate electro-optic platform for spectrally tailored dual-comb spectroscopy

Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Mengjie Yu, Zaijun Chen +4

A high-resolution broad-spectral-bandwidth spectrometer on a chip would create new opportunities for gas-phase molecular fingerprinting, especially in environmental sensing. A reso…

physics.app-ph2020★ 27 cited

Chip-Based Lithium-Niobate Frequency Combs

Mengjie Yu, Cheng Wang, Mian Zhang +1

Lithium niobate is an excellent photonic material with large and nonlinearities. Recent breakthroughs in nanofabrication technology have enabled ultralow-loss nanophoto…

physics.optics2019★ 12 cited

Ultrabroadband Nonlinear Optics in Nanophotonic Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate Waveguides

Marc Jankowski, Carsten Langrock, Boris Desiatov +6

Quasi-phasematched interactions in waveguides with quadratic nonlinearities enable highly efficient nonlinear frequency conversion. In this article, we demonstrate the first genera…

physics.optics2019★ 112 cited

High-dimensional frequency crystals and quantum walks in electro-optic microcombs

Christian Reimer, Yaowen Hu, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari +2

Synthetic optical structures have enabled studies of various physical processes and discoveries of new phenomena in a controllable manner. Past realizations, using for example coup…

physics.optics2019★ 5 cited

Raman lasing and soliton modelocking in lithium-niobate microresonators

Mengjie Yu, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Rebecca Cheng +4

The recent advancement in lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) technology is revolutionizing the optoelectronic industry as devices of higher performance, lower power consumption, a…

physics.app-ph2019★ 246 cited

Microwave-to-optical conversion using lithium niobate thin-film acoustic resonators

Linbo Shao, Mengjie Yu, Smarak Maity +8

We demonstrate conversion of up to 4.5 GHz-frequency microwaves to 1500 nm-wavelength light using optomechanical interactions on suspended thin-film lithium niobate. Our method uti…

physics.app-ph2019★ 306 cited

Ultra-low loss integrated visible photonics using thin-film lithium niobate

Boris Desiatov, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Mian Zhang +2

Integrated photonics is a powerful platform that can improve the performance and stability of optical systems, while providing low-cost, small-footprint and scalable alternatives t…

physics.app-ph2019★ 145 cited

An integrated low-voltage broadband lithium niobate phase modulator

Tianhao Ren, Mian Zhang, Cheng Wang +7

Electro-optic phase modulators are critical components in modern communication, microwave photonic, and quantum photonic systems. Important for these applications is to achieve mod…

physics.app-ph2019★ 217 cited

Low-loss fiber-to-chip interface for lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

Lingyan He, Mian Zhang, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari +3

Integrated lithium niobate (LN) photonic circuits have recently emerged as a promising candidate for advanced photonic functions such as high-speed modulation, nonlinear frequency…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 110 cited

Phononic band structure engineering for high-Q gigahertz surface acoustic wave resonators on lithium niobate

Linbo Shao, Smarak Maity, Lu Zheng +9

Phonons at gigahertz frequencies interact with electrons, photons, and atomic systems in solids, and therefore have extensive applications in signal processing, sensing, and quantu…

physics.app-ph2018★ 675 cited

Ultrahigh-efficiency second-harmonic generation in nanophotonic PPLN waveguides

Cheng Wang, Carsten Langrock, Alireza Marandi +5

Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide is a powerful platform for efficient wavelength conversion. Conventional PPLN converters however typically require long device l…