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100-GBd Waveguide Bragg Grating Modulator in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE. 33(2):85-88 Jan, 2021
Subject
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photonics and Electrooptics
Modulation
Optical waveguides
Optical modulation
Optical device fabrication
Amplitude modulation
Optical imaging
Optical variables control
Thin-film lithium niobate
integrated optics
electro-optic modulator (EOM)
optical fiber communication
Language
ISSN
1041-1135
1941-0174
Abstract
An integrated electro-optic modulator based on a waveguide Bragg grating in thin-film lithium niobate is introduced. The compact device with a footprint of $10\times 400\,\,\mu \text {m}^{2}$ displays an optical extinction ratio of 53.8 dB at a wavelength of 1555.9 nm in the C-band. With a simple intensity modulation and direct detection scheme, data rates up to 100 Gbit/s are demonstrated with 2-, 4- and 8-level pulse-amplitude modulation formats. The optical filter characteristic of a waveguide Bragg grating modulator suppresses one optical sideband, resulting in inherent single sideband modulation. This enables transmission of a 100 Gbit/s on-off keying signal over 12 km of standard single-mode fiber at 1559.05 nm, without the need for chromatic dispersion compensation.