Reduced Material Loss in Thin-film Lithium Niobate Waveguides

Autor: Shams-Ansari, Amirhassan, Huang, Guanhao, He, Lingyan, Li, Zihan, Holzgrafe, Jeffrey, Jankowski, Marc, Churaev, Mikhail, Kharel, Prashanta, Cheng, Rebecca, Zhu, Di, Sinclair, Neil, Desiatov, Boris, Zhang, Mian, Kippenberg, Tobias J., Loncar, Marko
Rok vydání: 2022
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1063/5.0095146
Popis: Thin-film lithium niobate has shown promise for scalable applications ranging from single-photon sources to high-bandwidth data communication systems. Realization of the next generation high-performance classical and quantum devices, however, requires much lower optical losses than the current state of the art ($\sim$10 million). Unfortunately, material limitations of ion-sliced thin-film lithium niobate have not been explored, and therefore it is unclear how high-quality factor can be achieved in this platform. Here we evaluate the material limited quality factor of thin-film lithium niobate photonic platform can be as high as $Q\approx 1.8\times10^{8}$ at telecommunication wavelengths, corresponding to a propagation loss of 0.2 dB/m.
Databáze: arXiv