Twenty-nine million intrinsic <i>Q</i>-factor monolithic microresonators on thin-film lithium niobate

Xinrui Zhu; Yaowen Hu; Shengyuan Lu; Hana K. Warner; Xudong Li; Yunxiang Song; Letícia Magalhães; Amirhassan Shams-Ansari; Andrea Cordaro; Neil Sinclair; Marko Lončar

doi:10.1364/PRJ.521172

Photonics Research, Volume. 12, Issue 8, A63(2024)

Twenty-nine million intrinsic Q-factor monolithic microresonators on thin-film lithium niobate

Xinrui Zhu^1、†, Yaowen Hu^1,2、†, Shengyuan Lu¹, Hana K. Warner¹, Xudong Li¹, Yunxiang Song¹, Letícia Magalhães¹, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari^1,3, Andrea Cordaro¹, Neil Sinclair¹, and Marko Lončar^1、*

Author Affiliations

¹John A. Paulson School for Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

²State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

³DRS Daylight Solutions, San Diego, California 92127, USA

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Xinrui Zhu, Yaowen Hu, Shengyuan Lu, Hana K. Warner, Xudong Li, Yunxiang Song, Letícia Magalhães, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Andrea Cordaro, Neil Sinclair, Marko Lončar, "Twenty-nine million intrinsic Q-factor monolithic microresonators on thin-film lithium niobate," Photonics Res. 12, A63 (2024)

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Special Issue: ADVANCING INTEGRATED PHOTONICS: FROM DEVICE INNOVATION TO SYSTEM INTEGRATION

Received: Feb. 13, 2024

Accepted: Apr. 30, 2024

Published Online: Jul. 25, 2024

The Author Email: Marko Lončar (loncar@seas.harvard.edu)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.521172

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