Laboratory for Nanophotonics

Quantum, Nonlinear and Mechanical Photonics

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About Us

Who We Are

We are an energetic and synergistic team of scholars with strong curiosity and passion for micro/nanophotonic technology. We come from very different backgrounds in physics, optics, photonics, electrical engineering, and others. But we share a common interest in using our creativity and combining our expertise to explore new physics and to develop new applications via engineered micro/nanoscopic photonic structures.

What We Do

Our research focuses primarily on understanding the fundamental physics of novel nonlinear optical, quantum optical, and optomechanical phenomena in micro-/nanoscopic photonic structures, and on finding their potential applications towards chip-scale photonic signal processing, sensing, and wavefront engineering, in both classical and quantum regimes.

Why Choose Us

Here, you will find a fun playground for both experimentalists and theoreticians to explore new phenomena, physics, and applications, where your imagination may thrive and where your knowledge, experience, and intuition will have important impacts. Here, you will have great opportunities in exploring the forefront of scientific research and in conquering scientific and engineering challenges, in a friendly and constructive environment, working together with people from diverse backgrounds.

Research

 

Integrated Quantum Photonics

 

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Advance of quantum optical science in the past few decades has now come to the engineering era of real practical application, which has been witnessed in recent years in the areas of secure communication, metrology, sensing, and potentially future advanced computing.

Integrated Nonlinear Photonics

 

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Nonlinear optical processes have attracted long-lasting interest ever since the first observation of second-harmonic generation, which have found very broad application ranging from photonic signal processing, tunable coherent radiation, frequency metrology, optical microscopy, to quantum information processing.

LN&SiC
Photonics

 

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Functionalities of nanophotonic devices/circuits rely crucially on the properties of underlying device materials. We explore new material platforms with outstanding characteristics (electrical, optical, mechanical, thermal, etc.) for diverse applications, with current specific focus on lithium niobate and silicon carbide.

Integrated Photonic Sensing

 

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Integrated photonic platforms are ideal for sensing application. On one hand, a variety of physical mechanisms can be flexibly implemented and integrated for diverse and multi-modal sensing applications.

 

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Members

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Qiang Lin

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor,Optics

Office:721 CSB

Email:qiang.lin@rochester.edu

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Austin Graf

Graduate Student

B.S.,University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
2016

Office:626 CSB

Email:agraf@ur.rochester.edu

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Jeremy Staffa

Graduate Student

B.S. , University of Rochester,
the Institute of Optics,
2018

Office:626 CSB

Email:jstaffa@u.rochester.edu

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Raymond Lopez-Rios

Graduate Student

B.S. , University of Rochester,
the Institute of Optics,
2017

Office:625 CSB

Email:rlopezri@ur.rochester.edu

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Shixin Xue

Graduate Student

B.S. , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2018

Office:625 CSB

Email:Email:sxue4@ur.rochester.edu

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Zhengdong Gao

Graduate Student

B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2019

Office:625 CSB

Email:zgao14@ur.rochester.edu

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Qili Hu

Graduate Student

B.S., Zhejiang University,
2021

Office:625 CSB

Email:qhu17@UR.Rochester.edu

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Sanket Bohora

Graduate Student

B.S. , University of Manchester,
2017

Office:626 CSB

Email:sbohora@ur.rochester.edu

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Yueteng Zhang

Graduate Student

B.S., Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 2023

Office:627 CSB

Email:yzh390@ur.rochester.edu

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Xueming Yun

Graduate Student

M.S. , University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , 2024

Office:627 CSB

Email:

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Tian Qiu

Undergraduate Student

Office:627 CSB

Email:tqiu4@u.rochester.edu

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Linrui(Stephen) Tan

Undergraduate Student

Office:627 CSB

Email:tqiu4@u.rochester.edu

 

 

 

 

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  • Publications

T. Yuan, J. Wu, Y. Liu, X. Yan, H. Jiang, H. Li, Z. Liang, Q. Lin, Y. Chen, and X. Chen, "Chip-scale spontaneous quasi-phase matched second harmonic generation in a micro-racetrack resonator," Sci. China Phys. Mech. 66, 284211 (2023).

U.A. Javid, R. Lopez-Rios, J. Ling, A. Graf, J. Staffa, and Q. Lin, “Chip-scale simulations in a quantum-correlated synthetic space,” Nat. Photonics 17, 883 (2023).

Y. He, R. Lopez-Rios, U.A. Javid, J. Ling, M. Li, S. Xue, K. Vahala, and Q. Lin, “High-speed tunable microwave-rate soliton microcomb,” Nat. Commun. 14, 3467 (2023).

S. Xue, Z. Shi, J. Ling, Z. Gao, Q. Hu, K. Zhang, G. Valentine, X. Wu, J. Staffa, U.A. Javid, and Q. Lin, “Full-spectrum visible electro-optic modulator,” Optica 10, 125 (2023).

A. Boes, L. Chang, C. Langrock, M. Yu, M. Zhang, Q. Lin, M. Lončar, M. Fejer, J. Bowers, and A. Mitchell, “Lithium niobate photonics: Unlocking the electromagnetic spectrum,” Science 379, 6627 (2023).

J. Ling, J. Staffa, H. Wang, B. Shen, L. Chang, U.A. Javid, L. Wu, Z. Yuan, R. Lopez‐Rios, M. Li, Y. He, B. Li, J.E. Bowers, K.J. Vahala, and Q. Lin, “Self-Injection Locked Frequency Conversion Laser,” Laser & Photon. Rev. 17, 2200663 (2023).

M. Li, L. Chang, L. Wu, J. Staffa, J. Ling, U.A. Javid, S. Xue, Y. He, R. Lopez-Rios, T.J. Morin, H. Wang, B. Shen, S. Zeng, L. Zhu, K.J. Vahala, J.E. Bowers, and Q. Lin, “Integrated pockels laser,” Nat. Commun. 13, 5344 (2022).

A. Graf, S.D. Rogers, J. Staffa, U.A. Javid, D.H. Griffith, and Q. Lin, “Nonreciprocity in Photon Pair Correlations of Classically Reciprocal Systems,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 213605 (2022).

U.A. Javid, S.D. Rogers, A. Graf, and Q. Lin, "Cavity optomechanical sensing in the nonlinear saturation limit," Laser & Photon. Rev. 15, 2100166 (2021).

C. Bao, Z. Yuan, L. Wu, M. Suh, H. Wang, Q. Lin, and K.J. Vahala, “Architecture for microcomb-based GHz-mid-infrared dual-comb spectroscopy,” Nat. Commun. 12, 6573 (2021).

U.A. Javid, J. Ling, J. Staffa, M. Li, Y. He, and Q. Lin, “Ultrabroadband Entangled Photons on a Nanophotonic Chip,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 183601 (2021).

Y. Wang, Q. Lin, and P.X.L. Feng, “Single-crystal 3C-SiC-on-insulator platform for integrated quantum photonics,” Opt. Express 29 1011 (2021).

H. Jiang, X. Yan, H. Liang, R. Luo, X. Chen, Y. Chen, and Q. Lin, "High harmonic optomechanical oscillations in the lithium niobate photonic crystal nanocavity," Appl. Phys. Lett. 117, 081102(2020).

M. Li, J. Ling, Y. He, U.A. Javid, S. Xue, and Q. Lin, "Lithium niobate photonic-crystal electro-optic modulator," Nat. Commun. 11, 4123 (2020).

Y. He, J. Ling, M. Li, and Q. Lin, “Perfect soliton crystals on demand,” Laser & Photon. Rev. 14, 1900339 (2020).

J. Ling, Y. He, R. Luo, M. Li, H. Liang, and Q. Lin, “Athermal lithium niobate microresonator,” Opt. Express 28, 21682 (2020).

J. Zhao, M. Rusing, U. A. Javid, J. Ling, M. Li, Q. Lin, and S. Mookherjea, “Shallow-etched thin-film lithium niobate waveguides for highly-efficient second-harmonic generation,” Opt. Express 28, 19669 (2020).

X. Lu, J. Y. Lee, and Q. Lin, “Silicon carbide zipper photonic crystal optomechanical cavities,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 116, 221104 (2020).

C. Bao, Z. Yuan, H. Wang, L. Wu, B. Shen, K. Sung, S. Leifer, Q. Lin, and K. Vahala, “Interleaved difference frequency generation for microcomb spectral densification in the mid-infrared,” Optica 7, 309 (2020).

U. A. Javid, S. D. Rogers, A. Graf, and Q. Lin, “Temporally Asymmetric Bi-photon States in Cavity Enhanced Optical Parametric Processes,” Phys. Rev. Appl. 12, 054019 (2019).

U. A. Javid and Q. Lin, “Quantum correlations from dynamically modulated optical nonlinear interactions,” Phys. Rev. A 100, 043811 (2019).

S. D. Rogers, A. Graf, U. A. Javid, and Q. Lin, “Coherent quantum dynamics of systems with coupling-induced creation pathways,” Comm. Phys. 2, 95 (2019).

Y. He, Q.-F. Yang, J. Ling, R. Luo, H. Liang, M. Li, B. Shen, H. Wang, K. Vahala, and Q. Lin, “Self-starting bi-chromatic LiNbO3 soliton microcomb,” Optica 6, 1138 (2019).

X. Lu, J. Y. Lee, S. D. Rogers, and Q. Lin, “Silicon carbide double-microdisk resonator,” Opt. Lett. 44, 4295 (2019).

M. Li, H. Liang, R. Luo, Y. He, J. Ling, and Q. Lin, “Photon-level tuning of photonic nanocavities,” Optica 6, 860 (2019).

R. Luo, Y. He, H. Liang, M. Li, and Q. Lin, “Semi-nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides for highly efficient second harmonic generation,” Laser & Photon. Rev. 13, 1800288 (2019).

R. Luo, Y. He, H. Liang, M. Li, J. Ling, and Q. Lin, “Optical parametric generation in a lithium niobate microring with modal phase matching,” Phys. Rev. Appl. 11, 034026 (2019).

M. Li, H. Liang, R. Luo, Y. He, and Q. Lin, “High-quality two-dimensional lithium niobate photonic crystal slab nanoresonators,” Laser & Photon. Rev. 13, 1800228 (2019).

H. Jiang, H. Liang, R. Luo, X. Chen, Chen, Y. and Q. Lin, Nonlinear frequency conversion in one dimensional lithium niobate photonic crystal nanocavities, Applied Physics Letters, 113, 021104 (2018).

Y. He, H. Liang, R. Luo, M. Li & Q. Lin, Dispersion engineered high quality lithium niobate microring resonators, Optics Express, 26, 16315-16322 (2018).

L, Rui, Y. He, H. Liang, M. Li, and Q. Lin, Highly-tunable efficient second-harmonic generation in a lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguide. arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03621 (2018).

X. Sun, R. Luo, X.-C. Zhang, and Q. Lin, “Squeezing the Fundamental Temperature Fluctuations of A High-Q Micro/Nanoresonator,” Physical Review A 95, 023822 (2017).

H. Liang, R. Luo, Y. He, H. Jiang, and Q. Lin, High-quality lithium niobate photonic crystal nanocavities, Optica 4, 1251 (2017).

R. Luo, H. Jiang, S. Rogers, H. Liang, Y. He, and Q. Lin, On-chip second-harmonic generation and broadband parametric down-conversion in a lithium niobate microresonator, Opt. Express 25, 24531 (2017).

H. Jiang, R. Luo, H. Liang, X. Chen, Y. Chen, and Q. Lin, "Fast response of photorefraction in lithium niobate microresonators," Opt. Lett. 42, 3267(2017).

X. Sun, H. Liang, R. Luo, W. C. Jiang, X. C. Zhang, and Q. Lin, "Nonlinear optical oscillation dynamics in high-Q lithium niobate microresonators." Opt. Express 25, 13504 (2017).

R. Luo, H. Jiang, H. Liang, Y. Chen, and Q. Lin, “Self-referenced temperature sensing with a lithium niobate microdisk resonator,” Opt. Lett. 42, 1281 (2017).

H. Liang, Y. He, R. Luo, and Q. Lin,“Ultra-broadband dispersion engineering of nanophotonic waveguides,” Opt. Express 24, 29444-29451 (2016).

W. C. Jiang and Q. Lin, “Chip-scale cavity optomechanics in lithium niobate,” Sci. Rep. 6, 36920 (2016).

X. Lu, S. Rogers, T. Gerrits, W. C. Jiang, S. W. Nam, and Q. Lin, “Heralding single photons from a high-Q silicon microdisk,” Optica 3, 1331 (2016).

S. Rogers, D. Mulkey, X. Lu, W. C. Jiang, and Q. Lin, “High visibility time-energy entangled photons from a silicon nanophotonic chip,” ACS Photon. 3, 1754 (2016).

W. Yu, W. C. Jiang, Q. Lin, and T. Lu, “Cavity optomechanical spring sensing of single molecules,” Nat. Commun. 7, 12311 (2016).

X. Lu, W. C. Jiang, J. Zhang, and Q. Lin, “Biphoton statistics of quantum light generated on a silicon chip,” ACS Photon. 3, 1626 (2016).

R. Luo, H. Liang, and Q. Lin, “Multicolor cavity soliton,” Opt. Express 23, 20884-20904 (2016).

X. Lu, J. Y. Lee, and Q. Lin, “High-frequency and high-quality silicon carbide optomechanical microresonators,” Sci. Rep. 5, 17005 (2015).

J. Y. Lee, X. Lu, and Q. Lin, “High-Q silicon carbide photonic-crystal cavities,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 041106 (2015).

Y. Wen, X. Wu, R. Li, Q. Lin, and G. He, “Five-partite entanglement generation in a high-Q microresonator,” Phys. Rev. A 91, 042311 (2015).

S. Rogers, X. Lu, W. C. Jiang, and Q. Lin, “Twin photon pairs in a high-Q silicon microresonator,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 041102 (2015).

W. C. Jiang, X. Lu, J. Zhang, O. Painter, and Q. Lin, “Silicon-chip source of bright photon pairs,” Opt. Express 23, 20884-20904 (2015).

    X. Lu, J. Lee, S. Rogers, and Q. Lin, “Optical Kerr nonlinearity in a high-Q silicon carbide microresonator,” Opt. Express 22, 30826 (2014).

W. C. Jiang, J. Zhang, N. G. Usechak, and Q. Lin, “Dispersion engineering of high-Q silicon microresonator via thermal oxidation,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 031112 (2014).

X. Lu, S. Rogers, W. C. Jiang, and Q. Lin, "Selective engineering of cavity resonance for frequency matching in optical parametric processes," Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 151104 (2014).

X. Lu, J. Y. Lee, P. X.-L. Feng, and Q. Lin, ‘High Q silicon carbide microdisk resonator,’ Appl. Phys Lett. 104, 181103 (2014).

W. C. Jiang, J. Zhang, Q. Lin, "Compact suspended silicon microring resonators with ultrahigh quality", Optics Express, Vol. 22, Issue 1, pp. 1187-1192 (2014).

W. Yu, W. C. Jiang, Q. Lin, and T. Lu, “Coherent optomechanical oscillation of a silica microsphere in an aqueous environment,” Opt. Express, 22, 21421-21426 (2014).

 

 

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