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ArticleNature communications2025

Photonics-integrated terahertz transmission lines.

Yazan Lampert, Amirhassan Shams-Ansari, Aleksei Gaier, Alessandro Tomasino, Xuhui Cao, Leticia Magalhaes, Shima Rajabali, Marko Lončar, Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Yazan Lampert *Hybrid Photonics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. yazan.lampert@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7051-2392
Amirhassan Shams-Ansari *Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA. amirhassan.shams-ansari@drs.com.
Aleksei GaierHybrid Photonics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Alessandro TomasinoHybrid Photonics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Xuhui CaoHybrid Photonics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Leticia MagalhaesHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Shima RajabaliHybrid Photonics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
Marko LončarHarvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5029-5017
Ileana-Cristina Benea-ChelmusHybrid Photonics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. cristina.benea@epfl.ch.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4814-4498

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modern communication and sensing technologies connect the optical domain with the microwave domain. Accessing the terahertz region from 100 GHz to 10 THz is critical for providing larger bandwidths capabilities. Despite progress in integrated electronics, they lack a direct link to the optical domain, and face challenges with increasing frequencies ( > 1 THz). Electro-optic effects offer promising capabilities but are currently limited to bulk nonlinear crystals, missing out miniaturization, or to sub-terahertz bandwidths. Here, we address these challenges by realizing photonic circuits that integrate terahertz transmission lines on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN). By providing terahertz field confinement and phase-matched interaction with optical fields, our miniaturized devices support low-noise and broad bandwidth terahertz generation and detection spanning four octaves (200 GHz to  > 3 THz). By leveraging photonics' advantages in low-loss and high-speed control, our platform achieves control over the terahertz spectrum and its amplitude, paving the way for compact and power-efficient devices with applications in telecommunications, spectroscopy, quantum electrodynamics and computing.

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