Abstract
We demonstrate a low-loss, high-efficiency lithium niobate electro-optic (EO) modulator with optical isolation trenches to achieve stronger field confinement and reduced light absorption loss. The proposed modulator realized considerable improvements, including a low half-wave voltage–length product of 1.2 V·cm, an excess loss of ∼2.4 dB, and a broad 3-dB EO bandwidth of over 40 GHz. We developed a lithium niobate modulator with, to the best of our knowledge, the highest reported modulation efficiency of any Mach–Zehnder interferometer (MZI) modulator.
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