Optoelectronics Letters, Volume. 20, Issue 6, 339(2024)

Simulation design of thin film lithium niobate electro-optic modulator with bimetallic layer electrodes

Qiulin WU1...2,3, Xinkai FENG2,3, Jiaying CHEN2,3, Lei MA2,3, Huaixi CHEN2,3,*, and Wanguo and LIANG23 |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350108, China
  • 2University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100059, China
  • 3Fujian Science & Technology Innovation Laboratory for Optoelectronic Information of China, Fuzhou 350108, China
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    Thin-film lithium niobate electro-optical modulator will become the key device in the future optical communication, which has the advantages of high modulation rate, low half-wave voltage, large bandwidth, and easy integration compared with conventional bulk lithium niobate modulator. However, because the electrode gap of the lithium niobate film modulator is very narrow, when the microwave frequency gets higher, it leads to higher microwave loss, and the electro-optical performance of the modulator will be greatly reduced. Here, we propose a thin film lithium niobate electro-optic modulator with a bimetallic layer electrode structure to achieve microwave loss less than 8 dB/cm in the range of 200 GHz, exhibiting a voltage-length product of 1.1 V?cm and a 3 dB electro-optic bandwidth greater than 160 GHz. High-speed data transmission test has been performed, showing good performance.

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    WU Qiulin, FENG Xinkai, CHEN Jiaying, MA Lei, CHEN Huaixi, and LIANG Wanguo. Simulation design of thin film lithium niobate electro-optic modulator with bimetallic layer electrodes[J]. Optoelectronics Letters, 2024, 20(6): 339

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    Paper Information

    Received: Jul. 26, 2023

    Accepted: Oct. 7, 2023

    Published Online: Aug. 23, 2024

    The Author Email: Huaixi CHEN (hxchen@fjirsm.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s11801-024-3143-0

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