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 femtosecond pulse generator on thin-film lithium niobate

M Yu, D Barton III, R Cheng, C Reimer, P Kharel, L He… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Integrated femtosecond pulse and frequency comb sources are critical components for a
wide range of applications, including optical atomic clocks, microwave photonics …

Dual-polarization thin-film lithium niobate in-phase quadrature modulators for terabit-per-second transmission

M Xu, Y Zhu, F Pittalà, J Tang, M He, WC Ng, J Wang… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report, to our knowledge, the first dual-polarization thin-film lithium niobate coherent
modulator for next-generation optical links with sub-1-V driving voltage and 110-GHz …

Slow-light silicon modulator with 110-GHz bandwidth

C Han, Z Zheng, H Shu, M **, J Qin, R Chen, Y Tao… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Silicon modulators are key components to support the dense integration of electro-optic
functional elements for various applications. Despite numerous advances in promoting the …

Chip-scale high-performance photonic microwave oscillator

Y He, L Cheng, H Wang, Y Zhang, R Meade… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Optical frequency division based on bulk or fiber optics provides unprecedented spectral
purity for microwave oscillators. To extend the applications of this approach, the challenges …

Sub-1 Volt and high-bandwidth visible to near-infrared electro-optic modulators

D Renaud, DR Assumpcao, G Joe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated electro-optic (EO) modulators are fundamental photonics components with utility
in domains ranging from digital communications to quantum information processing. At …

Electrically pumped laser transmitter integrated on thin-film lithium niobate

A Shams-Ansari, D Renaud, R Cheng, L Shao, L He… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Integrated thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) photonics has emerged as a promising platform
for the realization of high-performance chip-scale optical systems. Of particular importance …

Integrated electro-optic isolator on thin-film lithium niobate

M Yu, R Cheng, C Reimer, L He, K Luke, E Puma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Optical isolators are indispensable components of almost any optical system and are used
to protect a laser from unwanted reflections for phase-stable coherent operation. The …

Lithium niobate on insulator: an emerging platform for integrated quantum photonics

S Saravi, T Pertsch, F Setzpfandt - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its properties, lithium niobate is one of the most suitable material platforms for the
implementation of integrated optical quantum circuits. With the commercialization of lithium …