Dual-polarization thin-film lithium niobate in-phase quadrature modulators for terabit-per-second transmission
Mengyue Xu, Yuntao Zhu, Fabio Pittalà, Jin Tang, Mingbo He, Wing Chau Ng, Jingyi Wang, Ziliang Ruan, Xuefeng Tang, Maxim Kuschnerov, Liu Liu, Siyuan Yu, Bofang Zheng, Xinlun Cai
Abstract
We report, to our knowledge, the first dual-polarization thin-film lithium niobate coherent modulator for next-generation optical links with sub-1-V driving voltage and 110-GHz bandwidth, enabling a record single-wavelength 1.96-Tb/s net data rate with ultrahigh energy efficiency.
Topics & Concepts
Lithium niobateTerabitMaterials sciencePolarization (electrochemistry)OptoelectronicsOpticsWavelengthBandwidth (computing)Thin filmPhysicsTelecommunicationsWavelength-division multiplexingComputer scienceChemistryNanotechnologyPhysical chemistryPhotonic and Optical DevicesAdvanced Fiber Laser TechnologiesPhotorefractive and Nonlinear Optics