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Vol. 13, Issue 4, 817 (2025)

High-linearity wide-bandwidth integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator based on a dual-optical-mode co-modulated configuration

Heyun Tan^1,2, Junwei Zhang^1,4,*, Jingyi Wang¹, Songnian Fu²..., Siyuan Yu¹ and Xinlun Cai^1,3,5,*|Show fewer author(s)

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¹State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Electronics and Information Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China

²Institute of Advanced Photonics Technology, School of Information Engineering, and Key Laboratory of Photonic Technology for Integrated Sensing and Communication, Ministry of Education, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China

³Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China

⁴e-mail: zhangjw253@mail.sysu.edu.cn

⁵e-mail: caixlun5@mail.sysu.edu.cn

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Heyun Tan, Junwei Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Songnian Fu, Siyuan Yu, Xinlun Cai, "High-linearity wide-bandwidth integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator based on a dual-optical-mode co-modulated configuration," Photonics Res. 13, 817 (2025) Copy Citation Text

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Heyun Tan, Junwei Zhang, Jingyi Wang, Songnian Fu, Siyuan Yu, Xinlun Cai, "High-linearity wide-bandwidth integrated thin-film lithium niobate modulator based on a dual-optical-mode co-modulated configuration," Photonics Res. 13, 817 (2025)

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