Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 19, Issue 6, 060016(2021)

Wideband thin-film lithium niobate modulator with low half-wave-voltage length product Fast Track

Xuecheng Liu, Bing Xiong*, Changzheng Sun, Jian Wang, Zhibiao Hao, Lai Wang, Yanjun Han, Hongtao Li, Jiadong Yu, and Yi Luo
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  • Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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    Category: Special Issue on Lithium Niobate Based Photonic Devices

    Received: May. 8, 2021

    Accepted: May. 14, 2021

    Posted: May. 14, 2021

    Published Online: Jun. 28, 2021

    The Author Email: Bing Xiong (bxiong@tsinghua.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/COL202119.060016

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