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 …

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 …

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 …

Breaking voltage–bandwidth limits in integrated lithium niobate modulators using micro-structured electrodes

P Kharel, C Reimer, K Luke, L He, M Zhang - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators with low voltages and large bandwidths are crucial for both analog
and digital communication. Recently, thin-film lithium niobate modulators have emerged as …

Integrated photonics based on rare‐earth ion‐doped thin‐film lithium niobate

Y Jia, J Wu, X Sun, X Yan, R **e… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Rare‐earth (RE) ion doped crystalline materials have a wide spectrum of applications in
lasers, amplifiers, sensors, as well as classical and quantum information processing. The …

CMOS-integrated aluminum nitride MEMS: A review

RMR Pinto, V Gund, RA Dias… - Journal of …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aluminum nitride (AlN) has gained wide interest owing to its high values of elastic modulus,
band gap, dielectric strength, resistivity, thermal conductivity and acoustic velocities …

High‐Efficiency Electro‐Optic Modulator on Thin‐Film Lithium Niobate with High‐Permittivity Cladding

N Chen, K Lou, Y Yu, X He… - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thin‐film lithium niobate is a promising platform owing to its large electro‐optic (EO)
coefficients and low propagation loss. However, the large footprints of devices limit their …

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 …

High-speed modulator with integrated termination resistor based on hybrid silicon and lithium niobate platform

S Sun, M He, M Xu, X Zhang, Z Ruan… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid Silicon and Lithium Niobate photonic integration platform has emerged as a
promising candidate to combine the scalability of silicon photonic with the high modulation …

Wafer-scale periodic poling of thin-film lithium niobate

M Chen, C Wang, XH Tian, J Tang, X Gu, G Qian, K Jia… - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
Periodically poled lithium niobate on insulator (PPLNOI) offers an admirably promising
platform for the advancement of nonlinear photonic integrated circuits (PICs). In this context …