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 …

High-efficiency and broadband on-chip electro-optic frequency comb generators

Y Hu, M Yu, B Buscaino, N Sinclair, D Zhu, R Cheng… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Developments in integrated photonics have led to stable, compact and broadband comb
generators that support a wide range of applications including communications, ranging …

[HTML][HTML] A power-efficient integrated lithium niobate electro-optic comb generator

K Zhang, W Sun, Y Chen, H Feng, Y Zhang… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated electro-optic (EO) frequency combs are essential components for future
applications in optical communications, light detection and ranging, optical computation …

Ultra-high electro-optic activity demonstrated in a silicon-organic hybrid modulator

C Kieninger, Y Kutuvantavida, DL Elder, S Wolf… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Efficient electro-optic (EO) modulators crucially rely on advanced materials that exhibit
strong electro-optic activity and that can be integrated into high-speed and efficient phase …

Wafer-scale low-loss lithium niobate photonic integrated circuits

K Luke, P Kharel, C Reimer, L He, M Loncar… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Thin-film lithium niobate (LN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) could enable ultrahigh
performance in electro-optic and nonlinear optical devices. To date, realizations have been …

Broadband electro-optic frequency comb generation in a lithium niobate microring resonator

M Zhang, B Buscaino, C Wang, A Shams-Ansari… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Optical frequency combs consist of equally spaced discrete optical frequency components
and are essential tools for optical communication, precision metrology, timing and …

High-power broadly tunable electrooptic frequency comb generator

AJ Metcalf, V Torres-Company… - IEEE Journal of …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Broadband traveling-wave electrooptic modulators made of lithium niobate have reached a
high level of technological maturity. They can provide simultaneously low Vπ, sustain high …

Programmable optical filter in thin-film lithium niobate with simultaneous tunability of extinction ratio and wavelength

S Hou, P Chen, M Shah, I Briggs, W Xing, Z Liu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
On-chip optical filters are of key importance to many modern applications such as optical
interconnections and wavelength division multiplexing systems. In all these scenarios …

Full-spectrum visible electro-optic modulator

S Xue, Z Shi, J Ling, Z Gao, Q Hu, K Zhang… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We report an on-chip high-speed visible-band electro-optic modulator that can operate over
the full visible spectrum of 400–700 nm, with a record low V _π⋅ L of 0.48, 0.25, and 0.17 …

Wideband thin-film lithium niobate modulator with low half-wave-voltage length product

X Liu, B Xiong, C Sun, J Wang, Z Hao, L Wang… - Chinese Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
A novel thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) electro-optic modulator is proposed and
demonstrated. LiNbO _3-silica hybrid waveguide is adopted to maintain low optical loss for …