[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Dual-polarization thin-film lithium niobate in-phase quadrature modulators for terabit-per-second transmission

M Xu, Y Zhu, F Pittalà, J Tang, M He, WC Ng, J Wang… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report, to our knowledge, the first dual-polarization thin-film lithium niobate coherent
modulator for next-generation optical links with sub-1-V driving voltage and 110-GHz …

Breaking the bandwidth limit of a high-quality-factor ring modulator based on thin-film lithium niobate

Y Xue, R Gan, K Chen, G Chen, Z Ruan, J Zhang, J Liu… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Growing global data traffic requires high-performance modulators with a compact size, a
large bandwidth, a low optical loss, and a small power consumption. A careful trade-off …

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 …

Bias-drift-free Mach–Zehnder modulators based on a heterogeneous silicon and lithium niobate platform

S Sun, M He, M Xu, S Gao, Z Chen, X Zhang… - Photonics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Optical modulators have been and will continue to be essential devices for energy-and cost-
efficient optical communication networks. Heterogeneous silicon and lithium niobate …

Full spectrum millimeter-wave modulation

J Macario, P Yao, S Shi, A Zablocki, C Harrity… - Optics express, 2012 - opg.optica.org
In recent years, the development of new lithium niobate electro-optic modulator designs and
material processing techniques have contributed to support the increasing need for faster …

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 …

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 …

Efficient electro-optical modulation on thin-film lithium niobate

M Jin, J Chen, Y Sua, P Kumar, Y Huang - Optics letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Thin-film lithium niobate has emerged as an excellent, multifaceted platform for integrated
photonics and opto-electronics, in both classical and quantum domains. We introduce a …

Demonstration of high-speed thin-film lithium-niobate-on-insulator optical modulators at the 2-µm wavelength

B Pan, J Hu, Y Huang, L Song, J Wang, P Chen… - Optics express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Optical communication wavelength is being extended from the near-infrared band of
1.31/1.55 µm to the mid-infrared band of 2 µm or beyond for satisfying the increasing …