LiNbO3/Si-Hybrid Slot-Waveguide Electro-Optical Modulator Designs for 1550 nm
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Mercier, Thomas M.; Charlton, Martin D. B.; Tomita, Isao
- Source
- 2021 26th Microoptics Conference (MOC) Microoptics Conference (MOC), 2021 26th. :1-2 Sep, 2021
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical design
Lithium niobate
Electrooptic modulators
Voltage
Silicon
Electrooptical waveguides
Electric fields
- Language
We investigate the performances of two slot-waveguide modulator designs using optical and electrical simulations. The proposed designs utilize high confinement Si slot waveguides in combination with LiNbO 3 (LN). This allows for efficient modulation due to the strong Pockels effect of the LN and the strong electric field of the slot-waveguide.