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Strong Pockels materials

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Electro-optic modulators based on epitaxial barium titanate integrated on silicon can reach speeds up to 50 Gbit s–1.

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Fig. 1: BTO structure, silicon modulator and Si–BTO hybrid modulator.

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  2. Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

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  3. Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

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