Title :
Electrooptic Polymer Ring Resonator Modulation up to 165 GHz
Author :
Bortnik, Bartosz ; Hung, Yu-Chueh ; Tazawa, Hidehisa ; Seo, Byoung-Joon ; Luo, Jingdong ; Jen, Alex K-Y. ; Steier, William H. ; Fetterman, Harold R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
Modulation is demonstrated at 84, 111, 139, and 165 GHz resonances of a traveling-wave electrooptic polymer ring-resonator-based modulator. The modulation response is characterized throughout the W-band, illustrating the resonant response at 84 and 111 GHz. A traveling-wave analysis that includes the compound effect of microwave loss and optical/microwave velocity mismatch in a ring-resonator-based modulator is presented and shows a good agreement with experimental results. The ring modulator shows superior performance compared to the Mach-Zehnder modulator in the presence of these limitations when both structures have the same equivalent low-frequency Vpi
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; optical polymers; optical resonators; optical waveguides; 111 GHz; 139 GHz; 165 GHz; 84 GHz; Mach-Zehnder modulator; electrooptic polymer ring resonator modulation; traveling-wave analysis; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Frequency; High speed optical techniques; Optical modulation; Optical polymers; Optical ring resonators; Optical signal processing; Optical waveguides; Resonance; Electrooptic devices; electrooptic modulation; millimeter-wave (MMW) modulation; optical polymers; rib waveguides;
Journal_Title :
Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, IEEE Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JSTQE.2006.887156
