On-chip silicon photonic signaling and processing: a review

J Wang, Y Long - Science Bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
The arrival of the big data era has driven the rapid development of high-speed optical
signaling and processing, ranging from long-haul optical communication links to short-reach …

Controlling phonons and photons at the wavelength scale: integrated photonics meets integrated phononics

AH Safavi-Naeini, D Van Thourhout, R Baets… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Radio-frequency communication systems have long used bulk-and surface-acoustic-wave
devices supporting ultrasonic mechanical waves to manipulate and sense signals. These …

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators operating at CMOS-compatible voltages

C Wang, M Zhang, X Chen, M Bertrand… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Electro-optic modulators translate high-speed electronic signals into the optical domain and
are critical components in modern telecommunication networks, and microwave-photonic …

Advances in on-chip photonic devices based on lithium niobate on insulator

J Lin, F Bo, Y Cheng, J Xu - Photonics Research, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Crystalline lithium niobate (LN) is an important optical material because of its broad
transmission window that spans from ultraviolet to mid-infrared and its large nonlinear and …

High-speed silicon photonics modulators

J Witzens - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The realization of gigahertz bandwidth modulators out of silicon-based technology in the
early 2000s marked a cornerstone of silicon photonics development. While modulation …

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 …

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 …

High-speed modeling of ultracompact electrooptic modulators

A Honardoost, R Safian, A Rao… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The technology for compact thin-film lithium niobate electrooptic modulators has made
significant advances recently. With achieving high levels of maturity for such platforms, a …

Ultra-efficient and fully isotropic monolithic microring modulators in a thin-film lithium niobate photonics platform

M Bahadori, Y Yang, AE Hassanien, LL Goddard… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The large electro-optic coefficient, r_33, of thin-film lithium niobate (LN) on insulator makes it
an excellent material platform for high-efficiency optical modulators. Using the fundamental …

Toward 3D integrated photonics including lithium niobate thin films: a bridge between electronics, radio frequency, and optical technology

M Rusing, PO Weigel, J Zhao… - IEEE Nanotechnology …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Lithium Niobate (LN) was the dominant material platform for integrated optics for several
decades, based on its superior electro-optical and nonlinear (NL) optical properties …