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 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 …

High-performance coherent optical modulators based on thin-film lithium niobate platform

M Xu, M He, H Zhang, J Jian, Y Pan, X Liu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The coherent transmission technology using digital signal processing and advanced
modulation formats, is bringing networks closer to the theoretical capacity limit of optical …

Ion-cut lithium niobate on insulator technology: Recent advances and perspectives

Y Jia, L Wang, F Chen - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3 or LN) is a well-known multifunctional crystal that has been widely
applied in various areas of photonics, electronics, and optoelectronics. In the past …

Integrated lithium niobate photonics

Y Qi, Y Li - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Lithium niobate (LiNbO3) on insulator (LNOI) is a promising material platform for integrated
photonics due to single crystal LiNbO3 film's wide transparent window, high refractive index …

Grating couplers on silicon photonics: Design principles, emerging trends and practical issues

L Cheng, S Mao, Z Li, Y Han, HY Fu - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Silicon photonics is an enabling technology that provides integrated photonic devices and
systems with low-cost mass manufacturing capability. It has attracted increasing attention in …

Low-loss edge-coupling thin-film lithium niobate modulator with an efficient phase shifter

P Ying, H Tan, J Zhang, M He, M Xu, X Liu, R Ge… - Optics letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Thin-film lithium-niobate-on-insulator (LNOI) is a very attractive platform for optical
interconnect and nonlinear optics. It is essential to enable lithium niobate photonic …

Flat optical frequency comb generator based on integrated lithium niobate modulators

M Xu, M He, Y Zhu, S Yu, X Cai - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Chip-scale electro-optic (EO) frequency combs are expected to play an essential role in
future high-capacity optical communications systems and next-generation mobile …

Highly efficient thermo-optic tunable micro-ring resonator based on an LNOI platform

X Liu, P Ying, X Zhong, J Xu, Y Han, S Yu, X Cai - Optics letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a high-efficiency thermo-optic (TO) tunable micro-ring resonator in thin-film
lithium niobate. Thermal insulation trenches around the heated micro-ring resonator and the …

[HTML][HTML] Low-loss fiber grating coupler on thin film lithium niobate platform

B Chen, Z Ruan, X Fan, Z Wang, J Liu, C Li, K Chen… - APL Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A grating coupler with a high coupling efficiency and low back reflections is designed and
demonstrated on the thin film lithium niobate platform, which facilitates an efficient interface …