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Publication
IEDM 2018
Conference paper
First cryogenic electro-optic switch on silicon with high bandwidth and low power tunability
Abstract
We demonstrate the first electro-optic switch operating at cryogenic temperatures of 4 K with a high electrooptic bandwidth of > 18 GHz. Our novel technology exploits the Pockels effect in barium titanate thin films co-integrated with silicon photonics and offers low losses, pure phase modulation, and sub-pW electro-optic tuning.