Title :
Ring resonator-based electrooptic polymer traveling-wave modulator
Author :
Tazawa, Hidehisa ; Kuo, Ying-Hao ; Dunayevskiy, Ilya ; Luo, Jingdong ; Jen, Alex K.-Y. ; Fetterman, Harold R. ; Steier, William H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng.-Electrophys., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Abstract :
The authors report the bandpass-modulation characteristics of a ring resonator-based traveling-wave modulator using an electrooptic polymer AJL8/APC. The use of the traveling-wave electrode makes it possible to achieve an efficient modulation around 28 GHz, which is the free spectral range of the resonator, with a 3-dB bandwidth of 7 GHz. The modulation sensitivity is evaluated by defining an equivalent half-wave voltage of ring modulators. It is shown that the modulator has a potential in the microwave and millimeter-wave photonics applications
Keywords :
electro-optical modulation; microwave photonics; optical polymers; optical resonators; 7 GHz; bandpass modulation; electrooptic polymer traveling-wave modulator; microwave photonics; millimeter-wave photonics; ring resonator; Bandwidth; Electrodes; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical modulation; Optical resonators; Optical ring resonators; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Resonance; Analog optical links; EO polymers; electrooptic (EO) modulation; microwave photonics; ring resonator; waveguide modulators;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2006.878514
