Fig. 1. A four-quadrant diagram of photonics devices based on TFLN. (
a) A spatial-mode multiplexer, a waveguide crossing, and a compact waveguide bend using a 3D gradient-based inverse-design method
25. (
b) A grating coupler using particle swarm optimization method
26. (
c) A power splitter using Direct binary search method
27. (
d) A 4×4 multimode interference (MMI)
28. (
e) A polarization beam splitter
29. (
f) An alignment-tolerant grating coupler
30. (
g) An arrayed waveguide grating
31. (
h) A microring resonator for soliton microcomb generation
32. (
i) A tunable Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI)
33. (
j) An integrated electro-optic modulator
34. (
k) A mode-multiplexing device
35. (
l) A fundamental mode hybridization
36. (
m) A 4 channel CWDM device
37. (
n) A compact racetrack resonator
38. (
o) A lithium niobate photonic chip for wavelength-division-multiplexing transmitters
39. (
p) A 4×4 MMI for C-band optical 90-degree hybrid
40. (
q) An ultra-broadband and low-loss edge coupler
41. (
r) A dual-polarization TFLN in-phase quadrature modulators
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26, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; (d) ref.
28, Copyright © 2021 Optica Publishing Group; (e) ref.
29, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; (f) ref.
30, Copyright © 2019 Optica Publishing Group; (h) ref.
32, Copyright © 2019 Optica Publishing Group; (k) ref.
35, Copyright © 2023 John Wiley and Sons; (l) ref.
36, Copyright © 2023 Optica Publishing Group; (m) ref.
37, Copyright © 2022 Chinese Laser Press; (o) ref.
39, under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License; (p) ref.
40, Copyright © 2023 Optica Publishing Group; (r) ref.
42, Copyright © 2022 Optica Publishing Group.