Design and evaluation of highly reliable silica-LiNbO3 hybrid modulators for advanced formats

Silica/LiNbO3 hybrid integration enables us to realize compact and low-loss optical modulators for advanced formats. We propose a hybrid modulator design to mitigate the difference between the thermal expansion of a silicon substrate and LiNbO3, and report the evaluation results.

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