Design of High-Speed Mid-Infrared Electro-Optic Modulator Based on Thin Film Lithium Niobate

Autor: Lingyun Yu, Jumei Shang, Kaiwen Luo, Qijing Lin, Huajiang Chen, Wentao Qiu, Heyuan Guan, Huihui Lu
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol 14, Iss 2, Pp 1-6 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1943-0655
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2022.3158698
Popis: It is particularly important to improve the performance of mid-infrared (mid-IR) electro-optic (EO) modulator, which is one of the key devices that will expand the channels of optic communication, and will be utilized in optical free space communication, optical detection for gas molecules, etc. We present and theoretically design the performance of the high-speed mid-IR EO modulator based on lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) at λ = 3 μm. We have designed, calculated, and optimized single-mode ridge waveguide, 1 × 2 multimode interference (MMI) couplers and coplanar waveguide (CPW) electrodes structures for x-cut lithium niobate. Our device with an extinction ratio greater than 40 dB, a half-wave voltage-length product is about 12 V·cm, and a EO bandwidth up to 12 GHz with interaction length of 15 mm. The performance of interaction length of 5 mm and 10 mm mid-IR EO modulator are also proposed and simulated for a compromise consideration between the EO bandwidth and driving voltage.
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