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0.52 V-mm ITO-based Mach-Zehnder Modulator in Silicon Photonics
Rubab Amin, Rishi Maiti, Caitlin Carfano, Zhizhen Ma, Mohammad H. Tahersima, Yigal Lilach, Dilan Ratnayake, Hamed Dalir, Volker J. Sorger
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Electro-optic modulators transform electronic signals into the optical domain and are critical components in modern telecommunication networks, RF photonics, and emerging applications in quantum photonics and beam steering. All these applications require integrated and voltage-efficient modulator solutions with compact formfactors that are seamlessly integratable with Silicon photonics platforms and feature near-CMOS material processing synergies. However, existing integrated modulators are challenged to meet these requirements. Conversely, emerging electro-optic materials heterogeneously integrated with Si photonics open a new avenue for device engineering. Indium tin oxide (ITO) is one such compelling material for heterogeneous integration in Si exhibiting formidable electro-optic effect characterized by unity order index at telecommunication frequencies. Here we overcome these limitations and demonstrate a monolithically integrated ITO electro- optic modulator based on a Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI) featuring a high-performance half-wave voltage and active device length product, VpL = 0.52 V-mm. We show, how that the unity-strong index change enables a 30 micrometer-short pi-phase shifter operating ITO in the index-dominated region away from the epsilon-bear-zero ENZ point. This device experimentally confirms electrical phase shifting in ITO enabling its use in multifaceted applications including dense on-chip communication networks, nonlinearity for activation functions in photonic neural networks, and phased array applications for LiDAR.
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