Integrated Photonics and Nonlinear Optics for Computing, Sensing, and Quantum Networks
This community develops optical components, integrated circuits, and nonlinear materials to process information, generate quantum states, and enable high-bandwidth communication.
The work centers on silicon photonics, thin-film lithium niobate, and silicon nitride waveguides. Recurring methods include frequency combs, harmonic generation, and optical parametric oscillation. Applications span photonic quantum computing, quantum key distribution, optical neural networks, and high-speed data transmission. Specific materials such as indium gallium arsenide quantum dots and surface acoustic wave devices also appear frequently, supporting sensing and signal processing tasks.
The community is most prominent in niobium research, accounting for 16.6% of that element’s tracked output, followed by erbium at 7.5% and indium at 6.2%. Silicon contributes the highest raw paper count within this group, with 16,340 papers.
There are 78,288 papers in this community, published primarily in Optics Express, Applied Physics Letters, and Optics Letters.
Recent work includes integrated lithium niobate photonic computing circuits, high-speed heterogeneous lithium tantalate silicon photonics platforms, and programmable on-chip nonlinear photonics.