Lithium niobate photonics on silicon substrates
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Rabiei, Payam; Ma, Jichi; Chiles, Jeff; Khan, Saeed; Fathpour, Sasan
- Source
- 2014 IEEE Photonics Conference Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE. :220-221 Dec, 2014
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Optical waveguides
Lithium niobate
Optical resonators
Modulation
Optical device fabrication
Optical films
Optical refraction
- Language
- ISSN
- 1092-8081
A novel platform for lithium-niobate-on-silicon photonics is developed. High-index-contrast submicron waveguides, microring resonators and optical modulators are demonstrated on the platform. The Y-cut lithium niobate Mach-Zehnder modulators have a record-low half-voltage length-product of 4 V-cm.