Electrooptic polymer modulators with an inverted-rib waveguide structure

Polymeric APC-CPW electrooptic modulators incorporating an inverted-rib waveguide structure were fabricated and tested for the first time. The inverted structure greatly simplifies fabrication procedures, and additionally improves propagation loss performance. Mach-Zehnder electrooptic modulators fa...

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Published inIEEE photonics technology letters Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 218 - 220
Main Authors Seong-Ku Kim, Zhang, H., Chang, D.H., Zhang, C., Wang, C., Steier, W.H., Fetterman, H.R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.02.2003
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Electric potential
Electrodes
Electrooptic modulators
Electrooptical waveguides
Electrooptics
Fabrication
Insertion loss
Modulators
Noise levels
Optical fiber testing
Performance loss
Polymers
Propagation losses
Voltage
Waveguides
Wavelengths
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Summary:Polymeric APC-CPW electrooptic modulators incorporating an inverted-rib waveguide structure were fabricated and tested for the first time. The inverted structure greatly simplifies fabrication procedures, and additionally improves propagation loss performance. Mach-Zehnder electrooptic modulators fabricated using this structure exhibited 6 dB of fiber-to-fiber insertion loss for 2.3-cm length and 6 V of driving voltage for a one-arm micro-strip electrode of 1.5-cm interaction length, at a wavelength of 1.55 μm.
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ISSN:1041-1135
1941-0174
DOI:10.1109/LPT.2002.806861