Sub-1 Volt and high-bandwidth visible to near-infrared electro-optic modulators

D Renaud, DR Assumpcao, G Joe… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Integrated electro-optic (EO) modulators are fundamental photonics components with utility
in domains ranging from digital communications to quantum information processing. At …

Large Pockels effect in micro-and nanostructured barium titanate integrated on silicon

S Abel, F Eltes, JE Ortmann, A Messner, P Castera… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
The electro-optical Pockels effect is an essential nonlinear effect used in many applications.
The ultrafast modulation of the refractive index is, for example, crucial to optical modulators …

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 …

THz-to-optical conversion in wireless communications using an ultra-broadband plasmonic modulator

S Ummethala, T Harter, K Koehnle, Z Li… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Future wireless communication networks will need to handle data rates of tens or even
hundreds of Gbit s− 1 per link, requiring carrier frequencies in the unallocated THz …

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 …

Thin film lithium niobate electro-optic modulator with terahertz operating bandwidth

AJ Mercante, S Shi, P Yao, L Xie, RM Weikle… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
We present a thin film crystal ion sliced (CIS) LiNbO_3 phase modulator that demonstrates
an unprecedented measured electro-optic (EO) response up to 500 GHz. Shallow rib …

[HTML][HTML] Achieving beyond-100-GHz large-signal modulation bandwidth in hybrid silicon photonics Mach Zehnder modulators using thin film lithium niobate

X Wang, PO Weigel, J Zhao, M Ruesing… - APL Photonics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulators (EOM) based on thin-film lithium niobate bonded to
a silicon photonic waveguide circuit have been shown to achieve very high modulation …

110 GHz, 110 mW hybrid silicon-lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulator

F Valdez, V Mere, X Wang, N Boynton, TA Friedmann… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
High bandwidth, low voltage electro-optic modulators with high optical power handling
capability are important for improving the performance of analog optical communications …

An integrated low-voltage broadband lithium niobate phase modulator

T Ren, M Zhang, C Wang, L Shao… - IEEE photonics …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electro-optic phase modulators are critical components in modern communication,
microwave photonic, and quantum photonic systems. Important for these applications is to …

110 GHz CMOS compatible thin film LiNbO3 modulator on silicon

AJ Mercante, P Yao, S Shi, G Schneider… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
In this paper we address a significant limitation of silicon as an optical material, namely, the
upper bound of its potential modulation frequency. This arises due to finite carrier mobility …