Performance Considerations Of Lithium Niobate Modulators For Analogue Applications

Lithium Niobate modulators have been available commercially from several vendors for a number of years, and have found their way into a very broad range of Research and Development1activities, some of which were discussed in an earlier article . However, with the possible exception of the fibre-optic gyro, it is probably safe to say that systems applications for this class of device are still relatively limited and their exposure beyond the domain of optical scientific research is increasing only slowly.