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20172025
most cited110 GHz, 110 mW Hybrid Silicon-Lithium Niobate Mach-Zehnder Modulator

81 citations · 161 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

physics.optics2025★ 3 cited

High-performance Hybrid Lithium Niobate Electro-optic Modulators Integrated with Low-loss Silicon Nitride Waveguides on a Wafer-scale Silicon Photonics Platform

Arif Rahman, Forrest Valdez, Viphretuo Mere +3

Heterogeneously-integrated electro-optic modulators (EOM) are demonstrated using the hybrid-mode concept, incorporating thin-film lithium niobate (LN) by bonding with silicon nitri…

physics.optics2022

100 GHz Bandwidth, 1 Volt Near-infrared Electro-optic Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Forrest Valdez, Viphretuo Mere, Shayan Mookherjea

An integrated hybrid thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) is shown at near-infrared wavelengths. The design uses TFLN bonded to planarized si…

physics.optics2022★ 55 cited

Integrated O- and C-band Silicon-Lithium Niobate Mach-Zehnder Modulators with 100 GHz Bandwidth, Low Voltage, and Low Loss

Forrest Valdez, Viphretuo Mere, Xiaoxi Wang +1

Broadband integrated thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) electro-optic modulators (EOM) are desirable for optical communications and signal processing in both the O-band (1310 nm) and…

physics.optics2022★ 81 cited

110 GHz, 110 mW Hybrid Silicon-Lithium Niobate Mach-Zehnder Modulator

Forrest Valdez, Viphretuo Mere, Xiaoxi Wang +9

High bandwidth, low voltage electro-optic modulators with high optical power handling capability are important for improving the performance of analog optical communications and RF…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Independently reconfigurable internal loss and resonance-shift in an interferometer-embedded optical cavity

Aneesh Dash, Viphretuo Mere, S. K. Selvaraja +1

Optical cavities find diverse uses in lasers, frequency combs, optomechanics, and optical signal processors. Complete reconfigurability of the resonant frequency as well as the los…

physics.optics2017★ 21 cited

Efficient and Tunable Strip-to-Slot Fundamental Mode Coupling

Viphretuo Mere, Rakshitha Kallega, Shankar Kumar Selvaraja

We present a novel photonic wire-to-slot waveguide coupler in SOI. The phase matching between a wire and slot mode is achieved using a mode transformer. The architecture consists o…