Integrated Photonics Platforms and Nonlinear Optical Materials
This community develops integrated photonic circuits and nonlinear optical materials to manipulate light for signal processing, sensing, and quantum technologies.
The research centers on thin-film lithium niobate, silicon nitride, and silicon photonics platforms. Key methods include waveguide design, harmonic generation, and the engineering of photonic crystals and metasurfaces. Applications span integrated electro-optic modulation, frequency comb generation, and terahertz sensing. The work also addresses photonic quantum computing and optical neural networks, utilizing materials like barium titanate and liquid crystals to achieve tunable refractive indices and high-speed signal conversion.
The largest share of the community's output is found in niobium research, accounting for 14.2% of all niobium studies, with 3,652 papers in this group. Lithium and silicon research also contribute significantly, representing 10.6% and 10.8% of their respective element research, with 3,593 and 3,414 papers here.
The community comprises 18,105 papers, publishing most frequently in Optics Express, Optics Letters, and Optics & Laser Technology.
Recent work includes integrated lithium niobate photonic computing circuits, ultra-compact terahertz spectroscopy sensors, and topological quasiparticles of light.
Papers behind this description
- Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics — Nature Communications, 2024 — doi:10.1038/s41467-024-44750-0
- Terahertz sensing of 7 nm dielectric film with bound states in the continuum metasurfaces — 2024
- A manufacturable platform for photonic quantum computing — Nature, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08820-7
- Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum — Science, 2023 — doi:10.1126/science.abj4396
- An integrated large-scale photonic accelerator with ultralow latency — Nature, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08786-6
- Observation of intrinsic chiral bound states in the continuum — Nature, 2023 — doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05467-6
- Scaling and networking a modular photonic quantum computer — Nature, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41586-024-08406-9
- Lithium tantalate photonic integrated circuits for volume manufacturing — Nature, 2024 — doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07369-1
- Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate — Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2021 — doi:10.1364/aop.411024
- Ultra-low loss photonic circuits in lithium niobate on insulator — 2024
- Parallel convolutional processing using an integrated photonic tensor core — Nature, 2021 — doi:10.1038/s41586-020-03070-1
- Integrated electro-optics on thin-film lithium niobate — Nature Reviews Physics, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s42254-025-00825-5
- Integrated lithium niobate photonic computing circuit based on efficient and high-speed electro-optic conversion — Nature Communications, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41467-025-62635-8
- Integrated lithium niobate photonics for sub-ångström snapshot spectroscopy — Nature, 2025 — doi:10.1038/s41586-025-09591-x