Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

Advances in lithium niobate photonics: development status and perspectives

G Chen, N Li, JD Ng, HL Lin, Y Zhou, YH Fu… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Lithium niobate (LN) has experienced significant developments during past decades due to
its versatile properties, especially its large electro-optic (EO) coefficient. For example, bulk …

Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

High-performance hybrid silicon and lithium niobate Mach–Zehnder modulators for 100 Gbit s−1 and beyond

M He, M Xu, Y Ren, J Jian, Z Ruan, Y Xu, S Gao… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Optical modulators are at the heart of optical communication links. Ideally, they should
feature low loss, low drive voltage, large bandwidth, high linearity, compact footprint and low …

Electro-optic modulation in integrated photonics

G Sinatkas, T Christopoulos, O Tsilipakos… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Electro-optic modulators are an indispensable part of photonic communication systems,
largely dictating the achievable transmission rate. Recent advances in materials and …

Lithium niobate photonic-crystal electro-optic modulator

M Li, J Ling, Y He, UA Javid, S Xue, Q Lin - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Modern advanced photonic integrated circuits require dense integration of high-speed
electro-optic functional elements on a compact chip that consumes only moderate power …

Advances in on-chip photonic devices based on lithium niobate on insulator

J Lin, F Bo, Y Cheng, J Xu - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Crystalline lithium niobate (LN) is an important optical material because of its broad
transmission window that spans from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and its large nonlinear and …

High-Quality Dry Etching of LiNbO3 Assisted by Proton Substitution through H2-Plasma Surface Treatment

A Aryal, I Stricklin, M Behzadirad, DW Branch… - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
The exceptional material properties of Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3) make it an excellent
material platform for a wide range of RF, MEMS, phononic and photonic applications; …

Flat optical frequency comb generator based on integrated lithium niobate modulators

M Xu, M He, Y Zhu, S Yu, X Cai - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Chip-scale electro-optic (EO) frequency combs are expected to play an essential role in
future high-capacity optical communications systems and next-generation mobile …

High-efficiency thin-film lithium niobate modulator with highly confined optical modes

N Chen, Y Yu, K Lou, Q Mi, T Chu - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a low-loss, high-efficiency lithium niobate electro-optic (EO) modulator with
optical isolation trenches to achieve stronger field confinement and reduced light absorption …