An ultra-high Extinction Ratio of 60-dB on-chip electro-optical modulator based on silicon serially-coupled micro-ring structure is reported and successfully applied in a fiber-optic distributed acoustic sensing system for the first time, achieving pico-strain level sensitivity. In this work, we present the design, fabrication, and characterization of a TFLN Mach-Zehnder modulator (TFLN-MZM) with high extinction ratio (ER). The fabricated modulator. On-Chip Silicon Electro-Optical Modulator with Ultra-high Extinction Ratio for Distributed Optical Fiber Sensing Xiaoqian Shu, Zhuo Cheng, Lingmei Ma, Bigeng Chen, Caiyun Li, Chunlei Sun, Maoliang Wei, Shaoliang Yu, Lan Li, Hongtao Lin, and Yunjiang Rao X. Bulky acousto-optical modulators (AOM) as one of the key devices in DAS have been used for many years, but their relatively large. A high performance compact silicon photonics polarization splitter is proposed and demonstrated. The splitter is based on an asymmetric directional coupler. High extinction ratios at the through and drop ports of the polarization splitter are achieved by using an on-chip TE-pass polarizer and a.
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