Single-sideband modulation through polarization interband transition in thin-film lithium niobate waveguide

Di Zhu, Yaowen Hu, Boris Desiatov, Linbo Shao, Mengjie Yu, Marko Lončar

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Abstract

We demonstrate an electro-optic polarization modulator on thin-film lithium niobate. It realizes indirect interband transition between two polarization modes and enables non-reciprocal, single-sideband modulation.

Original languageEnglish
Article numberSW3A.1
JournalOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
EventCLEO: Science and Innovations, CLEO:S and I 2021 - Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: 9 May 202114 May 2021

Bibliographical note

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© OSA 2021, © 2021 The Author(s)

Funding

Support for this work was provided in part by Office of Naval Research MURI (QOMAND N00014-15-1-2761). Device fabrication was performed at the Harvard University Center for Nanoscale Systems. D. Z. is supported by Harvard Quantum Initiative postdoctoral fellowship. We thank fruitful discussion with Jiahui Wang and Shanhui Fan at Stanford University.

FundersFunder number
Harvard Quantum Initiative postdoctoral fellowship
Harvard University Center for Nanoscale Systems
Office of Naval ResearchN00014-15-1-2761

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