capability are important for improving the performance of analog optical communications
and RF photonic links. Here we designed and fabricated a thin-film lithium niobate (LN)
Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) which can handle high optical power of 110 mW, while
having 3-dB bandwidth greater than 110 GHz at 1550 nm. The design does not require
etching of thin-film LN, and uses hybrid optical modes formed by bonding LN to planarized …