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 …

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 …

100 GHz bandwidth, 1 volt integrated electro-optic Mach–Zehnder modulator at near-IR wavelengths

F Valdez, V Mere, S Mookherjea - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Integrated photonics at near-IR (NIR) wavelengths currently lacks high bandwidth and low-
voltage modulators, which add electro-optic functionality to passive circuits. Here, integrated …

Compact and Efficient Thin‐Film Lithium Niobate Modulators

G Chen, Y Gao, HL Lin… - Advanced Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Thin‐film lithium niobate (TFLN) modulators have garnered significant attention in the field of
integrated photonics due to their ability to manipulate light. Numerous TFLN modulators …

Silicon–lithium niobate hybrid intensity and coherent modulators using a periodic capacitively loaded traveling-wave electrode

Z Wang, G Chen, Z Ruan, R Gan, P Huang… - Acs …, 2022 - ACS Publications
High-performance silicon and thin-film lithium niobate hybrid electro-optic modulators are
demonstrated. In order to break the voltage–bandwidth limit in a normal traveling-wave …

Mid‐infrared silicon‐on‐lithium‐niobate electro‐optic modulators toward integrated spectroscopic sensing systems

S Xu, Z Ren, B Dong, J Zhou, W Liu… - Advanced Optical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mid‐infrared spectroscopy is an emerging technique in various applications such as
molecule identification and label‐free chemical sensing. Integrated photonic platforms have …

PLD Epitaxial Thin‐Film BaTiO3 on MgO − Dielectric and Electro‐Optic Properties

J Winiger, K Keller, D Moor, M Baumann… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The study demonstrates high‐quality pulsed‐laser‐deposited (PLD) barium titanate (BTO)
thin‐films on a magnesium oxide substrate. The frequency response of the relative …

A heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride photonic platform

M Churaev, RN Wang, A Riedhauser, V Snigirev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The availability of thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) and advances in processing
have led to the emergence of fully integrated LiNbO3 electro-optic devices. Yet to date …

High modulation efficiency and large bandwidth thin-film lithium niobate modulator for visible light

C Li, B Chen, Z Ruan, H Wu, Y Zhou, J Liu, P Chen… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate an integrated visible light modulator at 532 nm on the thin-
film lithium niobate platform. The waveguides on such platform feature a propagation loss of …

Folded thin-film lithium niobate modulator based on a poled Mach–Zehnder interferometer structure

J Hu, C Li, C Guo, C Lu, APT Lau, P Chen, L Liu - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
The thin-film lithium niobate structure has been used recently to construct compact and high-
performance electro-optical modulators. Due to the moderate electro-optical coefficient of …