Photonic crystal cavity IQ modulators in thin-film lithium niobate for coherent communications
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| author | Larocque, Hugo Vitullo, Dashiell L. P. Sludds, Alexander Sattari, Hamed Christen, Ian Choong, Gregory Prieto, Ivan Leo, Jacopo Zarebidaki, Homa Lohani, Sanjaya Kirby, Brian T. Soykal, Öney O. Soltani, Moe Ghadimi, Amir H. Englund, Dirk Heuck, Mikkel |
| author_facet | Larocque, Hugo Vitullo, Dashiell L. P. Sludds, Alexander Sattari, Hamed Christen, Ian Choong, Gregory Prieto, Ivan Leo, Jacopo Zarebidaki, Homa Lohani, Sanjaya Kirby, Brian T. Soykal, Öney O. Soltani, Moe Ghadimi, Amir H. Englund, Dirk Heuck, Mikkel |
| contents | Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) is an emerging integrated photonic platform showing great promise due to its large second-order nonlinearity at microwave and optical frequencies, cryogenic compatibility, large piezoelectric response, and low optical loss at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. These properties enabled Mach-Zehnder interferometer-based devices to demonstrate amplitude- and in-phase/quadrature (IQ) modulation at voltage levels compatible with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) electronics. Maintaining low-voltage operation requires centimeter-scale device lengths, making it challenging to realize the large-scale circuits required by ever-increasing bandwidth demands in data communications. Reduced device sizes reaching the 10 um scale are possible with photonic crystal (PhC) cavities. So far, their operation has been limited to modulation of amplitudes and required circulators or lacked cascadability. Here, we demonstrate a compact IQ modulator using two PhC cavities operating as phase shifters in a Fabry-Perot-enhanced Michelson interferometer configuration. It supports cascadable amplitude and phase modulation at GHz bandwidths with CMOS-compatible voltages. While the bandwidth limitation of resonant devices is often considered detrimental, their compactness enables dense co-integration with CMOS electronics where clock-rate-level operation (few GHz) removes power-hungry electrical time-multiplexing. Recent demonstrations of chip-scale transceivers with dense-wavelength division multiplied transceivers could be monolithically implemented and driven toward ultimate information densities using TFLN electro-optic frequency combs and our PhC IQ modulators. |
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| spellingShingle | Photonic crystal cavity IQ modulators in thin-film lithium niobate for coherent communications Larocque, Hugo Vitullo, Dashiell L. P. Sludds, Alexander Sattari, Hamed Christen, Ian Choong, Gregory Prieto, Ivan Leo, Jacopo Zarebidaki, Homa Lohani, Sanjaya Kirby, Brian T. Soykal, Öney O. Soltani, Moe Ghadimi, Amir H. Englund, Dirk Heuck, Mikkel Optics Applied Physics Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) is an emerging integrated photonic platform showing great promise due to its large second-order nonlinearity at microwave and optical frequencies, cryogenic compatibility, large piezoelectric response, and low optical loss at visible and near-infrared wavelengths. These properties enabled Mach-Zehnder interferometer-based devices to demonstrate amplitude- and in-phase/quadrature (IQ) modulation at voltage levels compatible with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) electronics. Maintaining low-voltage operation requires centimeter-scale device lengths, making it challenging to realize the large-scale circuits required by ever-increasing bandwidth demands in data communications. Reduced device sizes reaching the 10 um scale are possible with photonic crystal (PhC) cavities. So far, their operation has been limited to modulation of amplitudes and required circulators or lacked cascadability. Here, we demonstrate a compact IQ modulator using two PhC cavities operating as phase shifters in a Fabry-Perot-enhanced Michelson interferometer configuration. It supports cascadable amplitude and phase modulation at GHz bandwidths with CMOS-compatible voltages. While the bandwidth limitation of resonant devices is often considered detrimental, their compactness enables dense co-integration with CMOS electronics where clock-rate-level operation (few GHz) removes power-hungry electrical time-multiplexing. Recent demonstrations of chip-scale transceivers with dense-wavelength division multiplied transceivers could be monolithically implemented and driven toward ultimate information densities using TFLN electro-optic frequency combs and our PhC IQ modulators. |
| title | Photonic crystal cavity IQ modulators in thin-film lithium niobate for coherent communications |
| topic | Optics Applied Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16746 |