Journal
NANOPHOTONICS
Volume 12, Issue 18, Pages 3603-3611Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2023-0306
Keywords
thin-film lithium niobate; Bragg grating; electrooptic modulator; slow-light effect
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In this study, slow-light effect is achieved using a coupled Bragg resonator structure on the thin-film lithium niobate platform, and an ultra-compact slow-light Mach-Zehnder modulator is fabricated. The fabricated slow-light waveguides exhibit a large optical passband width, low insertion loss, and high optical group index. The fabricated slow-light Mach-Zehnder modulator has a large electro-optical bandwidth of >50 GHz and enables high-speed transmissions at data rates of 64 Gbit/s and 80 Gbit/s.
Lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulators (MZMs) with compact footprint and fast electro-optics (EO) responses are highly demanded for the next-generation optical interconnect systems. Here, we demonstrate slow-light (SL) effect using a coupled Bragg resonator structure on the thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) platform, and an ultra-compact SL-MZM with length L of similar to 370 mu m is also constructed. The fabricated SL waveguides show a large optical passband width of similar to 8 nm, an insertion loss of 2.9 dB, and a maximal optical group index of 7.50, corresponding to 3.4 times as large as that of regular TFLN rib waveguide. The fabricated SL-MZM exhibits a large EO bandwidth of >50 GHz in an operating wavelength band of similar to 8 nm as well. High-speed OOK transmissions at data rates of 64 Gbit/s and 80 Gbit/s are successfully achieved. To our best knowledge, it is first time to build SL waveguides and compact SL-MZMs with large EO bandwidths of >50 GHz on the monolithic TFLN platform.
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