• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 11, 2575 (2022)
Wei Ke1, Yanmei Lin1, Mingbo He1, Mengyue Xu1, Jiaxiang Zhang2, Zhongjin Lin3、4、*, Siyuan Yu1, and Xinlun Cai1、5、*
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  • 1State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200092, China
  • 3Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4, Canada
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.471534 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Wei Ke, Yanmei Lin, Mingbo He, Mengyue Xu, Jiaxiang Zhang, Zhongjin Lin, Siyuan Yu, Xinlun Cai. Digitally tunable optical delay line based on thin-film lithium niobate featuring high switching speed and low optical loss[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(11): 2575 Copy Citation Text show less

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    A tunable optical delay line (ODL) featuring high switching speed and low optical loss is highly desirable in many fields. Here, based on the thin-film lithium niobate platform, we demonstrate a digitally tunable on-chip ODL that includes five Mach–Zehnder interferometer optical switches, four flip-chip photodetectors, and four delay-line waveguides. The proposed optical switches can achieve a switching speed of 13 ns and an extinction ratio of 34.9 dB. Using a modified Euler-bend-based spiral structure, the proposed delay-line waveguide can simultaneously achieve a small footprint and low optical propagation loss. The proposed ODL can provide a maximum delay time of 150 ps with a resolution of 10 ps and feature a maximum insertion loss of 3.4 dB.
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    Wei Ke, Yanmei Lin, Mingbo He, Mengyue Xu, Jiaxiang Zhang, Zhongjin Lin, Siyuan Yu, Xinlun Cai. Digitally tunable optical delay line based on thin-film lithium niobate featuring high switching speed and low optical loss[J]. Photonics Research, 2022, 10(11): 2575
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