High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate

Zhongjin Lin; Yanmei Lin; Hao Li; Mengyue Xu; Mingbo He; Wei Ke; Heyun Tan; Ya Han; Zhaohui Li; Dawei Wang; X. Steve Yao; Songnian Fu; Siyuan Yu; Xinlun Cai

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- High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate
- High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate
- LSA 2022年11卷第5期页码：868-876
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, 510275, Guangzhou, China
  2.Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
  3.Photonics Information Innovation Center and Hebei Provincial Center for Optical Sensing Innovations, College of Physics Science and Technology, Hebei University, 071002, Baoding, China
  4.Institute of Advanced Photonics Technology, School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, 510006, Guangzhou, China
- Author bio：
  
  Xinlun Cai (caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00779-8
  中图分类号：
- 纸质出版日期：2022-05-31，
  
  网络出版日期：2022-04-13，
  
  收稿日期：2021-09-07，
  
  修回日期：2022-03-21，
  
  录用日期：2022-03-28
- Accepted：
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High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate[J]. LSA, 2022,11(5):868-876.

Lin, Z. J. et al. High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 868-876 (2022).
High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate[J]. LSA, 2022,11(5):868-876. DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00779-8.

Lin, Z. J. et al. High-performance polarization management devices based on thin-film lithium niobate. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 868-876 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00779-8.

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Abstract

High-speed polarization management is highly desirable for many applications

such as remote sensing

telecommunication

and medical diagnosis. However

most of the approaches for polarization management rely on bulky optical components that are slow to respond

cumbersome to use

and sometimes with high drive voltages. Here

we overcome these limitations by harnessing photonic int

egrated circuits based on thin-film lithium niobate platform. We successfully realize a portfolio of thin-film lithium niobate devices for essential polarization management functionalities

including arbitrary polarization generation

fast polarization measurement

polarization scrambling

and automatic polarization control. The present devices feature ultra-fast control speeds

low drive voltages

low optical losses and compact footprints. Using these devices

we achieve high fidelity polarization generation with a polarization extinction ratio up to 41.9 dB and fast polarization scrambling with a scrambling rate up to 65 Mrad s

-1

both of which are best results in integrated optics. We also demonstrate the endless polarization state tracking operation in our devices. The demonstrated devices unlock a drastically new level of performance and scales in polarization management devices

leading to a paradigm shift in polarization management.

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