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With the advantages of large electro-optical coefficient, wide transparency window, and strong optical confinement, thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) technique has enabled the development of various high-performance optoelectronics devices,…

The ability to amplify optical signals is of pivotal importance across science and technology. The development of optical amplifiers has revolutionized optical communications, which are today pervasively used in virtually all sensing and…

We report on an asymmetric high energy dual optical parametric amplifier (OPA) which is capable of having either the idlers, signals, or depleted pumps, relatively phase locked at commensurate or incommensurate wavelengths. Idlers and…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-12 Brandin Davis , Tobias Saule , Carlos A. Trallero-Herrero

Optical amplifiers are essential in numerous photonic applications. Parametric amplifiers, relying on a nonlinear material to create amplification, are uniquely promising as they can amplify without generating excess noise. Here, we…

Integrated coherent sources of ultra-violet (UV) light are essential for a wide range of applications, from ion-based quantum computing and optical clocks to gas sensing and microscopy. Conventional approaches that rely on UV gain materials…

Integrated visible photonic engines for solid-state quantum defects provide a foundation for scalable quantum networks. While miniaturization is advancing, active manipulation remains limited by the difficulty of achieving simultaneous…

Optical parametric amplification is a second-order nonlinear process whereby an optical signal is amplified by a pump via the generation of an idler field. It is the key ingredient of tunable sources of radiation that play an important role…

Integrated microwave photonics (MWP) offers a powerful paradigm for handling high-speed microwave signals within chip-scale optical systems. It provides a cost-effective solution to address bandwidth, tunability, and loss bottlenecks of…

We present a tunable, hybrid waveguide-fiber optical parametric oscillator (OPO) synchronously pumped by an ultra-fast fiber laser exploiting four-wave mixing (FWM) generated in silicon nitride waveguides. Parametric oscillation results in…

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has enabled efficient on-chip electro-optic modulation and frequency conversion for information processing and precision measurement. Extending these capabilities with optical frequency combs unlocks…

Research on microwave signal measurement techniques is risen, driven by the expanding urgent demands of wireless communication, global positioning systems, remote sensing and 6G networks. In stark contrast with traditional electronic-based…

We report optical parametric amplification (OPA) of low-frequency infrared pulses in the intermediate region between terahertz (THz) frequency and mid-infrared (MIR), i.e., from 16.9 to 44.8 THz. The 255-fs laser output of the Yb:KGW…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-26 Natsuki Kanda , Nobuhisa Ishii , Jiro Itatani , Ryusuke Matsunaga

Ultrafast lasers with simultaneously high average and peak power have become indispensable for driving a multitude of applications, including high-harmonic generation, strong-field physics, and particle source applications. Both parametric…

All optical wavelength converters (AOWCs) that can effectively and flexibly switch optical signals between different wavelength channels are essential elements in future optical fiber communications and quantum information systems. A…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-05 Xiaoting Li , Haochuan Li , Zhaoxi Chen , Fei Ma , Ke Zhang , Wenzhao Sun , Cheng Wang

We demonstrate the generation of $12.1 \pm 0.2$ dB squeezed light from a periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide optical parametric amplifier (OPA). While single-pass OPAs offer squeezed light with THz-order bandwidths, loss…

Terahertz (THz)-bandwidth continuous-wave (CW) squeezed light is essential for integrating quantum processors with time-domain multiplexing (TDM) by using optical delay line interferometers. Here, we utilize a single-pass optical parametric…

Integrated photon-pair sources are crucial for scalable photonic quantum systems. Thin-film lithium niobate is a promising platform for on-chip photon-pair generation through spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). However, the…

Second harmonic generation in thin film periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) is constrained by an efficiency-bandwidth trade-off and fabrication-sensitive scaling. We demonstrate a racetrack resonator incorporating a short PPLN section…

Thin-film periodically poled lithium niobate (TF-PPLN) devices have recently gained prominence for efficient wavelength conversion processes in both classical and quantum applications. However, the patterning and poling of TF-PPLN devices…

The explosive growth of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and large-scale machine learning is driving an urgent demand for short-reach optical interconnects featuring large bandwidth, low power consumption, high integration density,…