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On-chip twisted light emitters are essential components for orbital angular momentum (OAM) communication devices, which could address the growing demand for high-capacity communication systems by providing an additional degree of freedom…
Previous analyses of conditional \phi-phase gates for photonic qubits that treat cross-phase modulation (XPM) in a causal, multimode, quantum field setting suggest that a large (~\pi rad) nonlinear phase shift is always accompanied by…
Following the trends of index modulated (IM) techniques for optical communications, in the last few years several new waveform proposals have been made, aiming at conveying a higher density of information by driving different signal…
We demonstrate a platform for phase and amplitude modulation in silicon nitride photonic integrated circuits via piezo-optomechanical coupling using tightly mechanically coupled aluminum nitride actuators. The platform, fabricated in a CMOS…
Integrated nonlinear photonics has emerged as a transformative platform, enabling nanoscale nonlinear optical processes with significant implications for sensing, computation, and metrology. Achieving efficient nonlinear frequency…
Microdisk or microring modulators (MDMs or MRMs) realize compact electro-optic modulation in active silicon photonics (SiP) foundry platforms. A key advantage of these resonant modulators is that they readily implement dense wavelength…
Investigating physical models with photonic synthetic dimensions has been generating great interest in vast fields of science. The rapid developing thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform, for its numerous advantages including high…
Electro-optic modulators for high-speed on-off keying (OOK) are key components of short- and mediumreach interconnects in data-center networks. Besides small footprint and cost-efficient large-scale production, small drive voltages and…
Lithium niobate (LN) microring resonators, characterized by an exceptionally high second-order nonlinear coefficient and superior electro-optic tunability, serve as an outstanding platform for the precise control of integrated quantum…
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…
Modern communication networks demand ever-increasing transmission bandwidth, placing stringent requirements on low-cost, high-performance electro-optic modulators. Substantial advances have been made in integrated photonics employing…
Multi-mode fibers (MMFs) and single-mode fibers (SMFs) are widely used in optical communication networks. MMFs are the practical choice in terms of cost in applications that require short distances. Beyond that, SMFs are necessary because…
Compact, high-speed electro-optic phase modulators play a vital role in various large-scale applications including phased arrays, quantum and neural networks, and optical communication links. Conventional phase modulators suffer from a…
We demonstrate, for the first time, sputtered PZT as a platform for the development of Si-based photonic devices such as rings, MZI, and electro-optic modulators. We report the optimization of PZT on MgO(002) substrate to obtain highly…
This paper proposes a low-complexity iterative receiver for the recently proposed Orthogonal Chirp Division Multiplexing (OCDM) modulation scheme, where we consider a system under frequency-selective channels and constrained to channel…
The creation of high-performance narrowband filters is of great interest for many RF-signal processing applications. To this end, numerous schemes for electronic, MEMS-based, and microwave photonic filters have been demonstrated. Filtering…
This paper presents a new class of micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) C-band filters for 5G front-ends. The filter is comprised of resonators based on the first-order asymmetric Lamb wave (A1) mode in thin film lithium niobate. Two…
We report a novel configuration of bulk $\chi^{(2)}$ optical parametric oscillator (OPO) capable of delivering coherent broadband phase-locked spectrum when driven by a continuous-wave (cw) pump laser. By deploying an electro-optic…
A double-ridge waveguide is designed for efficient and robust second-harmonic generation (SHG) using the thin-film lithium-niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) platform. Perfect phase matching (PhM) is achieved between the fundamental waveguide mode…
Free-space modulation of light is crucial for many applications, from light detection and ranging to virtual or augmented reality. Traditional means of modulating free-space light involves spatial light modulators based on liquid crystals…