High-linearity wide-bandwidth integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator based on a dual-optical-mode co-modulated configuration

Heyun Tan; Junwei Zhang; Jingyi Wang; Songnian Fu; Siyuan Yu; Xinlun Cai

doi:10.1364/PRJ.542998

Photonics Research, Volume. 13, Issue 4, 817(2025)

High-linearity wide-bandwidth integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator based on a dual-optical-mode co-modulated configuration

Heyun Tan^1,2, Junwei Zhang^1,4、*, Jingyi Wang¹, Songnian Fu², Siyuan Yu¹, and Xinlun Cai^1,3,5、*

Author Affiliations

¹State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

²Institute of Advanced Photonics Technology, School of Information Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Photonic Technology for Integrated Sensing and Communication, Ministry of Education, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China

³Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China

⁴e-mail: zhangjw253@mail.sysu.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

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Paper Information

Category: Integrated Optics

Received: Sep. 23, 2024

Accepted: Jan. 8, 2025

Published Online: Mar. 10, 2025

The Author Email: Junwei Zhang (zhangjw253@mail.sysu.edu.cn), Xinlun Cai (caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.542998

CSTR:32188.14.PRJ.542998

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