Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

Lithium niobate on insulator: an emerging platform for integrated quantum photonics

S Saravi, T Pertsch, F Setzpfandt - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its properties, lithium niobate is one of the most suitable material platforms for the
implementation of integrated optical quantum circuits. With the commercialization of lithium …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced material loss in thin-film lithium niobate waveguides

A Shams-Ansari, G Huang, L He, Z Li, J Holzgrafe… - Apl Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Thin-film lithium niobate has shown promise for scalable applications ranging from single-
photon sources to high-bandwidth data communication systems. Realization of the next …

[HTML][HTML] Lightwave circuits in lithium niobate through hybrid waveguides with silicon photonics

PO Weigel, M Savanier, CT DeRose, AT Pomerene… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
We demonstrate a photonic waveguide technology based on a two-material core, in which
light is controllably and repeatedly transferred back and forth between sub-micron thickness …

[HTML][HTML] LiNbO3 surfaces from a microscopic perspective

S Sanna, WG Schmidt - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
A large number of oxides has been investigated in the last twenty years as possible new
materials for various applications ranging from opto-electronics to heterogeneous catalysis …

Low loss ridge waveguides in lithium niobate thin films by optical grade diamond blade dicing

MF Volk, S Suntsov, CE Rüter, D Kip - Optics Express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We report on the fabrication and characterization of ridge waveguides in lithium niobate thin
films by diamond blade dicing. The lithium niobate thin films with a thickness of 1 µm were …

Periodic domain inversion in x-cut single-crystal lithium niobate thin film

P Mackwitz, M Rüsing, G Berth, A Widhalm… - Applied Physics …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
We report the fabrication of periodically poled domain patterns in x-cut lithium niobate thin-
film. Here, thin films on insulator have drawn particular attention due to their intrinsic …

Electrically tunable absorber based on a graphene integrated lithium niobate resonant metasurface

X Chen, Q Meng, W Xu, J Zhang, Z Zhu, S Qin - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Perfect absorbers are of great importance in various applications such as photodetectors,
optical sensors and optical modulators. Recently, perfect absorption metasurface based on …

[HTML][HTML] High-performance electro-optical Mach–Zehnder modulators in a silicon nitride–lithium niobate thin-film hybrid platform

H Han, F Yang, C Liu, Z Wang, Y Jiang, G Chai… - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
We analyzed a Mach–Zehnder electro-optical modulator based on a silicon nitride strip–
loaded waveguide on 0.5 μm thick x-cut lithium niobate thin film. The optical and radio …