Reciprocal Phase Transition Electro-Optic Modulation

Fang Zou, Lei Zou, Ye Tian, Yiming Zhang, Erwin Bente, Weigang Hou, Yu Liu, Siming Chen, Victoria Cao, Lei Guo, Songsui Li, Lianshan Yan, Wei Pan, Dusan Milosevic, Zizheng Cao (Corresponding author), Antonius M.J. Koonen, Huiyun Liu, Xihua Zou (Corresponding author)

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Electro-optic (EO) modulation is a well-known and essential topic in the field of communications and sensing, while ultrahigh modulation efficiency is unprecedentedly desired in the current green and data era. However, dramatically increasing the modulation efficiency is difficult in conventional mechanisms, being intrinsically limited by the monotonic mapping relationship between the electrical driving signal and modulated optical signal. To break this bottleneck, a new mechanism termed phase-transition EO modulation is revealed from the reciprocal transition between two distinct phase planes arising from the Hopf bifurcation, being driven by a transient electrical signal to cross the critical point. A monolithically integrated mode-locked laser is implemented as a prototype, strikingly achieving an ultrahigh modulation energy efficiency of 3.06 fJ bit−1 improved by about four orders of magnitude and a contrast ratio exceeding 50 dB. The prototype is experimentally implemented for radio-over-fiber communication and acoustic sensing. This work indicates a significant advance on the state-of-the-art EO modulation technology and opens a new avenue for green communication and ubiquitous sensing applications.

Originele taal-2Engels
Artikelnummer2200577
Aantal pagina's9
TijdschriftLaser & Photonics reviews
Volume17
Nummer van het tijdschrift4
Vroegere onlinedatum29 jan. 2023
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - apr. 2023

Financiering

F.Z. and L.Z. contributed equally to this work. This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61922069, U21A20507), Sichuan Provincial Natural Science Foundation (23NSFC0425, 2022JDTD0013), NWO Zwaartekracht program on Integrated Nanophotonics, the Major Key Project of PCL, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/T01394X/1).

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