Lithium Niobate Photonics

This cutting-edge resource presents the concepts, technologies, and design techniques for devices based on the electro-optic effect in lithium niobate. It bridges the gap between the theory of photonics and electro-optics, and the practice of electro-optic device design and application. There is an emphasis on practical analysis using modern modeling tools. The book explains the fundamental physics of the electro-optic effect, classes of electro-optic materials, electro-optic properties of lithium niobate, and the physics and uses of ferroelectric domain inversion. Readers gain a solid understanding of the principles of operation, performance measures, and design considerations for the most common types of electro-optic devices.