Frontiers of Optoelectronics, Volume. 15, Issue 1, 12200(2022)
Quantum prospects for hybrid thin-film lithium niobate on silicon photonics
Photonics is poised to play a unique role in quantum technology for computation, communications and sensing. Meanwhile, integrated photonic circuits—with their intrinsic phase stability and high-performance, nanoscale components—offer a route to scaling. However, each integrated platform has a unique set of advantages and pitfalls, which can limit their power. So far, the most advanced demonstrations of quantum photonic circuitry has been in silicon photonics. However, thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) is emerging as a powerful platform with unique capabilities; advances in fabrication have yielded loss metrics competitive with any integrated photonics platform, while its large second-order nonlinearity provides efficient nonlinear processing and ultra-fast modulation. In this short review, we explore the prospects of dynamic quantum circuits—such as multiplexed photon sources and entanglement generation—on hybrid TFLN on silicon (TFLN/Si) photonics and argue that hybrid TFLN/Si photonics may have the capability to deliver the photonic quantum technology of tomorrow.
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Jeremy C. Adcock, Yunhong Ding. Quantum prospects for hybrid thin-film lithium niobate on silicon photonics[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2022, 15(1): 12200
Category: MINI REVIEW
Received: Jul. 2, 2021
Accepted: Aug. 16, 2021
Published Online: Aug. 25, 2022
The Author Email: Adcock Jeremy C. (jerad@fotonik.dtu.dk)