High-Precision Propagation-Loss Measurement of Single-Mode Optical Waveguides on Lithium Niobate on Insulator

oleh: Jintian Lin, Junxia Zhou, Rongbo Wu, Min Wang, Zhiwei Fang, Wei Chu, Jianhao Zhang, Lingling Qiao, Ya Cheng

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: MDPI AG 2019-09-01

Deskripsi

We demonstrate the fabrication of single-mode optical waveguides on lithium niobate on an insulator (LNOI) by optical patterning combined with chemomechanical polishing. The fabricated LNOI waveguides had a nearly symmetric mode profile of ~2.5 µm mode field size (full-width at half-maximum). We developed a high-precision measurement approach by which single-mode waveguides were characterized to have propagation loss of ~0.042 dB/cm.