• Photonics Research
  • Vol. 10, Issue 10, 2366 (2022)
Hanke Feng1,†, Ke Zhang1,†, Wenzhao Sun1, Yangming Ren2,3..., Yiwen Zhang1, Wenfu Zhang2,3 and Cheng Wang1,*|Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Department of Electrical Engineering & State Key Laboratory of Terahertz and Millimeter Waves, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    DOI: 10.1364/PRJ.464650 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Hanke Feng, Ke Zhang, Wenzhao Sun, Yangming Ren, Yiwen Zhang, Wenfu Zhang, Cheng Wang, "Ultra-high-linearity integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators," Photonics Res. 10, 2366 (2022) Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Integrated lithium niobate (LN) photonics is a promising platform for future chip-scale microwave photonics systems owing to its unique electro-optic properties, low optical loss, and excellent scalability. A key enabler for such systems is a highly linear electro-optic modulator that could faithfully convert analog electrical signals into optical signals. In this work, we demonstrate a monolithic integrated LN modulator with an ultra-high spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) of 120.04dB·Hz4/5 at 1 GHz, using a ring-assisted Mach–Zehnder interferometer configuration. The excellent synergy between the intrinsically linear electro-optic response of LN and an optimized linearization strategy allows us to fully suppress the cubic terms of third-order intermodulation distortions (IMD3) without active feedback controls, leading to 20dB improvement over previous results in the thin-film LN platform. Our ultra-high-linearity LN modulators could become a core building block for future large-scale functional microwave photonic integrated circuits by further integration with other high-performance components like low-loss delay lines, tunable filters, and phase shifters available on the LN platform.
    AIMD3·cos[(2f1f2)t]={34VRF3[13!d3Iout(κ)dv3]+258VRF5[15!d5Iout(κ)dv5]+}v=Vbias·cos[(2f1f2)t],

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    Hanke Feng, Ke Zhang, Wenzhao Sun, Yangming Ren, Yiwen Zhang, Wenfu Zhang, Cheng Wang, "Ultra-high-linearity integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators," Photonics Res. 10, 2366 (2022)
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