Microstructure and domain engineering of lithium niobate crystal films for integrated photonic applications

D Sun, Y Zhang, D Wang, W Song, X Liu… - Light: Science & …, 2020 - nature.com
Recently, integrated photonics has attracted considerable interest owing to its wide
application in optical communication and quantum technologies. Among the numerous …

Bonded thin film lithium niobate modulator on a silicon photonics platform exceeding 100 GHz 3-dB electrical modulation bandwidth

PO Weigel, J Zhao, K Fang, H Al-Rubaye, D Trotter… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an ultra-high-bandwidth Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator (EOM),
based on foundry-fabricated silicon (Si) photonics, made using conventional lithography and …

Emerging heterogeneous integrated photonic platforms on silicon

S Fathpour - Nanophotonics, 2015 - degruyter.com
Silicon photonics has been established as a mature and promising technology for
optoelectronic integrated circuits, mostly based on the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) waveguide …

High-performance and linear thin-film lithium niobate Mach–Zehnder modulators on silicon up to 50 GHz

A Rao, A Patil, P Rabiei, A Honardoost, R DeSalvo… - Optics letters, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Compact electro-optical modulators are demonstrated on thin films of lithium niobate on
silicon operating up to 50 GHz. The half-wave voltage length product of the high …

Heterogeneous lithium niobate photonics on silicon substrates

P Rabiei, J Ma, S Khan, J Chiles, S Fathpour - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
A platform for the realization of tightly-confined lithium niobate photonic devices and circuits
on silicon substrates is reported based on wafer bonding and selective oxidation of …

Compact lithium niobate electrooptic modulators

A Rao, S Fathpour - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lithium niobate (LN), spurred by its success for fiber-optic communications, has remained
the material of choice for high-performance electrooptic (EO) modulators. The past decade …

Heterogeneous microring and Mach-Zehnder modulators based on lithium niobate and chalcogenide glasses on silicon

A Rao, A Patil, J Chiles, M Malinowski, S Novak… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Thin films of lithium niobate are wafer bonded onto silicon substrates and rib-loaded with a
chalcogenide glass, Ge_23Sb_7S_70, to demonstrate strongly confined single-mode …

Second-harmonic generation in periodically-poled thin film lithium niobate wafer-bonded on silicon

A Rao, M Malinowski, A Honardoost, JR Talukder… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Second-order optical nonlinear effects (second-harmonic and sum-frequency generation)
are demonstrated in the telecommunication band by periodic poling of thin films of lithium …

Heterogeneous thin-film lithium niobate integrated photonics for electrooptics and nonlinear optics

A Rao, S Fathpour - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ion-sliced thin-film lithium niobate (LN) compact waveguide technology has facilitated the
resurgence of integrated photonics based on the material. The thin-film waveguides offer …

Heterogeneous nonlinear integrated photonics

S Fathpour - IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated photonics has been pursued on a large variety of materials and platforms over
more than half a century. In recent decades, silicon has emerged as the preferred optical …