In this talk, I will discuss our recent progress in developing chip-scale lithium niobate micro/nanophotonic devices for different applications. Lithium niobate (LN) exhibits outstanding material properties that have found many important applications. Scaling LN devices down to a micro/nanoscopic scale results in intriguing device characteristics that do not appear in bulk crystals or conventional waveguides. After a brief overview of the current state of the art, I will focus on discussing our recent efforts in exploring some unusual physical phenomena in these devices and in applying these devices for sensing, nonlinear optical, quantum optical, and optomechanical applications. I will provide a personal perspective of the future potential of LN micro/nanophotonics. Finally, I will give a general overview of the role and importance of material characteristics on the functionalities of micro/nanophotonic devices and their impacts on the application potential.
Qiang Lin is an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and an associate professor of Optics at the University of Rochester. His current research focuses primarily on integrated quantum photonics, nano-optomechanics, and nonlinear nanophotonics. He has published 72 peer-reviewed papers, resulting in an H-Index of 33 and total citations more than 5000 (according to Google Scholar). Prior to joining the University of Rochester in 2011, he was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech from 2007 to 2010. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester in 2006, prior to which he obtained his B.S. and M.S. in Applied Physics from Tsinghua University, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively.
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