• DocumentCode
    1646753
  • Title

    Highly linear electro-optic polymer based traveling wave MMI-fed directional coupler modulator

  • Author

    Xingyu Zhang ; BeomSuk Lee ; Che-yun Lin ; Wang, Alan X. ; Hosseini, Amir ; Chen, Ray T.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate an EO polymer based traveling-wave MMI-fed directional-coupler modulator. High-speed and linear operation is demonstrated with bandwidth-length product of 125GHz·cm, the 3-dB electrical bandwidth of 10GHz, and the SFDR of 110±3dB/Hz2/3.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical modulation; integrated optics; light interference; optical directional couplers; optical polymers; SFDR; bandwidth 10 GHz; bandwidth-length product; electrical bandwidth; electrooptic polymer; multimode interference; traveling wave MMI-fed directional coupler modulator; Directional couplers; Electrodes; Loss measurement; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Polymers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6325403