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Arrayed waveguide gratings in lithium tantalate integrated photonics

Hulyal, Shivaprasad U.  
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Hu, Jianqi  
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Wang, Chengli  
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July 7, 2025
Optica

Arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs) are widely used photonic components for splitting and combining different wavelengths of light. They play a key role in wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) systems by enabling efficient routing of multiple data channels over a single optical fiber and as a building block for various optical signal processing, computing, imaging, and spectroscopic applications. Recently, there has been growing interest in integrating AWGs in ferroelectric material platforms, as the platform simultaneously provides efficient electro-optic modulation capability and thus holds the promise for fully integrated WDM transmitters. To date, several demonstrations have been made in the X-cut thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3) platform, yet the large anisotropy of LiNbO3 complicates the design and degrades the performance of the AWGs. To address this limitation, we use the recently developed photonic integrated circuits (PICs) based on thin-film lithium tantalate (LiTaO3), a material with a similar Pockels coefficient as LiNbO3 but significantly reduced optical anisotropy, as an alternative viable platform. In this work, we manufacture LiTaO3 AWGs using deep ultraviolet lithography on a wafer scale. The fabricated AWGs feature a channel spacing of 100 GHz, an insertion loss of <4dB, and cross talk of <−14dB. The wafer-scale fabrication of these AWGs not only ensures uniformity and reproducibility, but also paves the way for realizing volume-manufactured integrated WDM transmitters in ferroelectric photonic integrated platforms.

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DOI
10.1364/optica.565570
Author(s)
Hulyal, Shivaprasad U.  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Hu, Jianqi  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Wang, Chengli  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Cai, Jiachen  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Lihachev, Grigory

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Kippenberg, Tobias J.  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-07-07

Publisher

Optica Publishing Group

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Optica
Volume

12

Issue

7

Start page

978

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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LPQM1  
LPQM2  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

Defense Sciences Office,
DARPA

NaPSAC,N660012424006

Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur
Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung

HEROIC,21649

HORIZON EUROPE Marie Sklodowska-Curie
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July 10, 2025
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