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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 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…

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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…

Stimulated Brillouin scattering with both pump and Stokes beams in resonance with whispering gallery modes of an ultra high Q CaF_2 resonator is demonstrated for the first time. The resonator is pumped with 1064 nm light and has a Brillouin…

Ultra-high-Q optical resonators have facilitated recent advancements in on-chip photonics by effectively harnessing nonlinear phenomena providing useful functionalities. While these breakthroughs, primarily focused on the near-infrared…

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…

We report the first observation of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) with Brillouin lasing, and Brillouin-coupled four-wave-mixing (FWM) in an ultra-high-Q silica microbottle resonator. The Brillouin lasing was observed at the frequency…

Generating ultra-low linewidths and high output power in an integrated single mode laser remains a critical challenge for future compact, portable, precision applications. Moreso, achieving these characteristics in a laser design that…

The demand for high-performance chip-scale lasers has driven rapid growth in integrated photonics. The creation of such low-noise laser sources is critical for emerging on-chip applications, ranging from coherent optical communications,…

High-quality microresonators can greatly enhance light-matter interactions and are excellent platforms for studying nonlinear optics. Wavelength conversion through nonlinear processes is the key to many applications of integrated optics.…

Photonic integrated Brillouin lasers have emerged as an important tool to realize a wide range of precision applications, including atomic time-keeping, low-noise microwave signal generation, fiber and quantum sensing, and ultra-high…

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…

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 metrology and sensing. Generation of such light sources in a…

We report on fabrication of crystalline lithium niobate microresonators with quality factors above 10^7 as measured around 770 nm wavelength. Our technique relies on femtosecond laser micromachining for patterning a mask coated on the…

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a direct measure of the strength of second-order nonlinear optical effects, which also include frequency mixing and parametric oscillations. Natural and artificial materials with broken…

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,…

We demonstrate an on-chip Yb3+-doped lithium niobate (LN) microdisk laser. The intrinsic quality factors of the fabricated Yb3+-doped LN microdisk resonator are measured up to 3.79x10^5 at 976 nm wavelength and 1.1x10^6 at 1514 nm…

Semiconductor nanowires (NWs) are promising for realizing various on-chip nonlinear optical devices, due to their nanoscale lateral confinement and strong light-matter interaction. However, high-intensity pulsed pump lasers are typically…

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…