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High complexity, dense integrated nanophotonic circuits possessing strong nonlinearities are desirable for a breadth of applications in classical and quantum optics. In this work, we study natural phase matching via modal engineering in…

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Integrated thin-film lithium niobate platform has recently emerged as a promising candidate for next-generation, high-efficiency wavelength conversion systems that allow dense packaging and mass-production. Here we demonstrate efficient,…

Periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide is a powerful platform for efficient wavelength conversion. Conventional PPLN converters however typically require long device lengths and high pump powers due to the limited nonlinear…

Lithium niobate (LN) thin film has recently emerged as an important platform for nonlinear optical investigations for its large $\chi^{(2)}$ nonlinear coefficients and ability of light localization. In this paper, we report the first…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-12 Li Zhang , Xiao Wu , Zhenzhong Hao , Rui Ma , Feng Gao , Fang Bo , Guoquan Zhang , Jingjun Xu

Lithium niobate (LN) metasurfaces exhibit remarkable Pockels effect-driven electro-optic tunability, enabling dynamic control of optical responses through external electric fields. When combined with their high second-order nonlinear…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Huifu Qiu , Xu Tu , Meibao Qin , Feng Wu , Tingting Liu , Shuyuan Xiao

Second harmonic generation (SHG) with a material of large transparency is an attractive way of generating coherent light sources at exotic wavelength range such as VUV, UV and visible light. It is of critical importance to improve nonlinear…

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) is a widely used platform for nonlinear frequency conversion, as its strong nonlinear susceptibility and enhanced modal confinement intensify nonlinear interactions. Frequency doubling from NIR to visible…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-15 Sagar P. Doshi , Gavin N. West , Dodd Gray , Rajeev J. Ram

Integrated waveguides exhibiting efficient second-order nonlinearities are crucial to obtain compact and low power optical signal processing devices. Silicon nitride (SiN) has shown second harmonic generation (SHG) capabilities in resonant…

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) in the form of x- or z-cut lithium-niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) has recently popped up as a very promising and novel platform for developing integrated optoelectronic (nano)devices and exploring fundamental…

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…

Thanks to its high quadratic nonlinear susceptibilty and low propagation losses, thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) on insulator is an ideal platform for laser frequency conversion and generation of quantum states of light. Frequency…

Nonlinear frequency conversion offers powerful capabilities for applications in telecommunications, signal processing, and computing. Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a promising integrated photonics platform due to its…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-18 Alessandra Sabatti , Jost Kellner , Robert J. Chapman , Rachel Grange

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…

Nonlinear metasurfaces provide a route to compact frequency conversion by replacing phase matching and long interaction lengths with resonantly enhanced light matter interaction in subwavelength structures. Extending this capability to…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Zetian Chen , Noa Mazurski , Uriel Levy

Thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) has emerged as a superior integrated-photonics platform for linear, nonlinear, and electro-optics. Here we combine quasi-phase-matching, dispersion engineering, and tight mode confinement to…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Jia-Yang Chen , Chao Tang , Zhao-Hui Ma , Zhan Li , Yong Meng Sua , Yu-Ping Huang

The lithium niobate integrated photonic platform has recently shown great promise in nonlinear optics on a chip scale. Here, we report second-harmonic generation in a high-Q lithium niobate microring resonator through modal phase matching,…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-27 Rui Luo , Yang He , Hanxiao Liang , Mingxiao Li , Jingwei Ling , Qiang Lin

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a leading platform for large-scale programmable photonic circuits for quantum and classical applications. As circuits scale in complexity, low-loss routing of broadband pump and signal fields…

Chip-integrated nonlinear photonics holds the key for advanced optical information processing with superior performance and novel functionalities. Here, we present an optimally mode-matched, periodically poled lithium niobate nanowaveguide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-22 Jia-yang Chen , Yong Meng Sua , Zhao-hui Ma , Chao Tang , Zhan Li , Yu-ping Huang

Efficient generation of high-quality photon pairs is essential for modern quantum technologies. Micro-ring resonator is an ideal platform for studying on-chip photon sources due to strong nonlinear effect, resonant-enhanced optical fields,…

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) waveguides are promising for efficient second-harmonic generation (SHG) owing to their strong optical confinement and large second-order nonlinearity. However, robust fabrication of high-efficiency devices…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-10 Yanqun Wang , Furong Zhong , Lin Liu , Yuntao Zhu , Jinyi Wang , Zhongjin Lin , Xinlun Cai