Affiliation:
1. Ioffe Institute, Politekhnicheskaya 26, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
Abstract
An approach for filtering the fundamental mode in an integrated optical modulator with multimode waveguides based on etched thin lithium niobate nanofilms is presented. It is shown that metal electrodes can be used as a modal filter to suppress high-order modes in wide multimode ridge waveguides and, consequently, to provide their quasi-single-mode regime of operation. The influence of the gap between the electrodes and its displacement relative to the waveguide symmetry axis is analyzed for various configurations of waveguides. The conditions for quasi-single-mode light propagation with suppression of high-order modes of more than 90 dB/cm are found. The influence of fabrication errors on the efficiency of modal filtering is discussed. Efficient electro-optical modulation with an equivalent voltage-length product of 4 V∙cm has been experimentally demonstrated on integrated optical phase modulator samples fabricated using conventional contact photolithography. The proposed topological solution can be further used for the fast and cheap fabrication of TFLN modulators by conventional contact photolithography. The proposed modal filtering can also be used in other waveguide topologies and in more complex waveguide devices.
Funder
Russian Science Foundation
Subject
General Materials Science,General Chemical Engineering
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