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    • Photonics
    • Materials Science
    • Electrical Engineering

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    • Electro-optical modulators are crucial for high-speed optical communication.
    • Existing modulators often require high driving voltages or have limited bandwidth.
    • Thin-film barium titanate offers promising electro-optic properties.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To propose and simulate monolithically integrated electro-optical modulators based on thin-film x-cut barium titanate.
    • To achieve high modulation bandwidth and low driving voltage compatible with CMOS technology.
    • To optimize both microwave and photonic circuits for enhanced performance.

    Main Methods:

    • Systematic simulation and calculation of optical and radio frequency parameters.
    • Evaluation of single-mode conditions, electrode-waveguide separation, bending loss, and optical field distribution.
    • Analysis of characteristic impedance, attenuation constant, radio frequency effective index, and modulation bandwidth.

    Main Results:

    • Achieved simultaneous high electro-optical efficiencies and group-velocity matching.
    • Demonstrated a low half-wave voltage-length product of 0.48 V·cm.
    • Simulated -3dB modulation bandwidths of 262 GHz (5 mm device) and 107 GHz (10 mm device).

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed thin-film barium titanate modulators show significant potential for low driving voltage and high-performance optical communication systems.
    • The integrated approach enables efficient manipulation of light at high frequencies.
    • Further development could lead to advancements in optical networking and data transmission.