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All-optical reconfiguration of single silicon-vacancy centers in diamond for non-volatile memories

Strain engineering can be used to control spin and optical properties of defect centers. Xue et al. report an all-optical method to reconfigure and increase the local strain of color centers in diamond, which, unlike previous approaches, does not require external fields or nanostructure modifications.

Yongzhou Xue
Xiaojuan Ni
Linran Fan
ResearchOpen Access08 Jul 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-7
Scalable photonic-phonoinc integrated circuitry for reconfigurable signal processing

Liang et al. developed a large-scale photonic-phononic integrated circuit platform using gallium nitride on sapphire, enabling efficient, flexible processing of optical, acoustic, and RF fields on one chip.

Liang Zhang
Chaohan Cui
Linran Fan
ResearchOpen Access19 Mar 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-6
Cascaded optical transparency in multimode-cavity optomechanical systems

Optical delay is essential to classical and quantum optical communication. Here, the authors realize prolonged optical delay with cascaded of electromagnetically induced transparency by integrating phonon–phonon and optomechanical coupling in a single on-chip device.

Linran Fan
King Y. Fong
Hong X. Tang
Research14 Jan 2015
Nature Communications

Volume: 6, P: 1-6
Superadditive communication with the green machine as a practical demonstration of nonlocality without entanglement

The so-called Green Machine is an old concept for a joint detection receiver that would allow superadditive optical communication capacity, but earlier designs are very hard to implement. Here, the authors propose a modified scheme and use it to demonstrate superadditive capacity with the BPSK Hadamard codewords.

Chaohan Cui
Jack Postlewaite
Saikat Guha
ResearchOpen Access22 Apr 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-7
Bidirectional interconversion of microwave and light with thin-film lithium niobate

Coherent conversion between optical and microwave photonics is needed for future quantum applications. Here, the authors combine thin-film lithium niobate and superconductor platforms as a hybrid electro-optic system to achieve high-efficiency frequency conversion between microwave and optical modes.

Yuntao Xu
Ayed Al Sayem
Hong X. Tang
ResearchOpen Access22 Jul 2021
Nature Communications

Volume: 12, P: 1-7
Adapted poling to break the nonlinear efficiency limit in nanophotonic lithium niobate waveguides

A major limiting factor for nonlinear efficiencies in lithium niobate waveguides, nanoscale thickness inhomogeneity, has been tackled using a fabrication approach called adapted poling.

Pao-Kang Chen
Ian Briggs
Linran Fan
Research26 Oct 2023
Nature Nanotechnology

Volume: 19, P: 44-50
In situ control of effective Kerr nonlinearity with Pockels integrated photonics

Many nanophotonic devices rely on optical nonlinearities, which can be indirectly engineered. The quantum interference of different nonlinear pathways directly controls the Kerr nonlinearity without changing the device design.

Chaohan Cui
Liang Zhang
Linran Fan
Research31 Mar 2022
Nature Physics

Volume: 18, P: 497-501
Spectrotemporal shaping of itinerant photons via distributed nanomechanics

Optomechanical coupling enables an on-chip frequency comb and optical time-lens for 70-fold optical pulse compression.

Linran Fan
Chang-Ling Zou
Hong X. Tang
Research11 Mar 2019
Nature Photonics

Volume: 13, P: 323-327
Integrated optomechanical single-photon frequency shifter

An optomechanical single-photon frequency shifter is demonstrated in integrated AlN waveguides. A frequency shift up to 150 GHz is achieved at telecom wavelength. The device shows near-unity efficiency and preserves the quantum coherence.

Linran Fan
Chang-Ling Zou
Hong X. Tang
Research31 Oct 2016
Nature Photonics

Volume: 10, P: 766-770
On-chip parallel processing of quantum frequency comb

Liang Zhang
Chaohan Cui
Linran Fan
ResearchOpen Access13 Jun 2023
npj Quantum Information

Volume: 9, P: 1-6

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