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Miniaturizing nonlinear optical components is essential for integrating advanced light manipulation into compact photonic devices, enabling scalable and cost-effective applications. While monocrystalline lithium niobate thin films advance…

Integrated electro-optic (EO) modulators are fundamental photonics components with utility in domains ranging from digital communications to quantum information processing. At telecommunication wavelengths, thin-film lithium niobate…

Electrically driven acousto-optic devices that provide beam deflection and optical frequency shifting have broad applications from pulse synthesis to heterodyne detection. Commercially available acousto-optic modulators are based on bulk…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Linbo Shao , Neil Sinclair , James Leatham , Yaowen Hu , Mengjie Yu , Terry Turpin , Devon Crowe , Marko Loncar

We present a compact, resonant-based coherent modulator on a thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform, addressing the growing demand for high-speed, energy-efficient modulators in modern telecommunications. The design incorporates…

High bandwidth, low voltage electro-optic modulators with high optical power handling capability are important for improving the performance of analog optical communications and RF photonic links. Here we designed and fabricated a thin-film…

Broadband integrated thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) electro-optic modulators (EOM) are desirable for optical communications and signal processing in both the O-band (1310 nm) and C-band (1550 nm). To address these needs, we design and…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-15 Forrest Valdez , Viphretuo Mere , Xiaoxi Wang , Shayan Mookherjea

We present our design, fabrication, and experimental results for very high-performance isotropic microring resonators with small radii (~ 30 {\mu}m) based on single-mode strip waveguides and transverse magnetic (TM) polarization in a fully…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Meisam Bahadori , Yansong Yang , Lynford L. Goddard , Songbin Gong

We propose and demonstrate a hybrid silicon and lithium niobate Michelson Interferometer Modulator (MIM) with enhanced modulation efficiency compared to a Mach-Zehnder modulator. The modulator is based on seamless integration of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Mengyue Xu , Wenjun Chen , Mingbo He , Xueqin Wen , Ziliang Ruan , Lifeng Chen , Liu Liu , Siyuan Yu , Xinlun Cai

Photonic integrated circuits based on Lithium Niobate have demonstrated the vast capabilities afforded by material with a high Pockels coefficient, allowing linear and high-speed modulators operating at CMOS voltage levels for applications…

Segmented, or slow-wave electrodes have emerged as an index-matching solution to improve bandwidth of traveling-wave Mach Zehnder and phase modulators on the thin-film lithium niobate on insulator platform. However, these devices require…

Electrically tunable metasurfaces that control the amplitude and phase of light through biasing of nanoscale antennas present a route to compact, sub-micron thick modulator devices. However, most platforms face limitations in bandwidth,…

High-speed photonic integrated circuits leveraging the thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform present a promising approach to address the burgeoning global data traffic demands. As a pivotal component, TFLN-based electro-optic (EO)…

The development of sophisticated integrated photonic circuits demands microresonators that combine exceptional optical confinement with dynamic operational flexibility. Here, we demonstrate a racetrack resonator on the thin-film lithium…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yuan Ren , Yong Zheng , Ruixue Liu , Boyang Nan , Ziyao Zhuang , Rongbo Wu , Min Wang , Ya Cheng

Several applications in modern photonics require compact on-chip optical filters with a tailored spectral response. However, achieving sub-nanometric bandwidths and high extinction ratios is particularly challenging, especially in…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-12 Alessandro Prencipe , Mohammad Amin Baghban , Katia Gallo

Nonlinear frequency mixing is of critical importance in extending the wavelength range of optical sources. It is also indispensable for emerging applications such as quantum information and photonic signal processing. Conventional lithium…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-24 Pao-Kang Chen , Ian Briggs , Chaohan Cui , Liang Zhang , Manav Shah , Linran Fan

Thin-film lithium niobate (LN) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) could enable ultrahigh performance in electro-optic and nonlinear optical devices. To date, realizations have been limited to chip-scale proof-of-concepts. Here we…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Kevin Luke , Prashanta Kharel , Christian Reimer , Lingyan He , Marko Loncar , Mian Zhang

We report the experimental realization of a LiNbO3 metasurface for electro-optic modulation of light polarization in the telecommunication band. High-Q quasi-bound states in the continuum are emploied to enhance the modulation of amplitude…

Programmable photonic circuits performing universal linear-optical transformations underpin vital functions in photonic quantum information processing, quantum-enhanced sensor networks, machine learning and many other intriguing…

Recent advances in the processing of thin-film LNOI have enabled low-loss photonic integrated circuits, modulators with improved half-wave voltage, electro-optic frequency combs and novel on-chip electro-optic devices, with applications…

We outline the design for a photonic crystal resonator made in a hybrid Silicon/Lithium Niobate material system. Using the index contrast between silicon and lithium niobate, it is possible to guide and confine photonic resonances in a thin…

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