Title :
Towards a low-loss, ultra-low drive voltage silicon-polymer hybrid electro-optic modulator
Author :
Ayazi, Ali ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Ding, Ran ; Gould, Michael ; Kim, Woo-Joong ; Spott, Alexander ; Huang, Su ; Luo, Jingdong ; Boyko, Bryan ; Bojko, Richard ; Jen, Alex K-Y ; Dalton, Larry ; Hochberg, Michael
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
New designs for silicon-polymer hybrid slot waveguide based electro-optic modulators are presented, along with new device results for ring and MZI based modulators and for slot waveguides. We also present a novel, non-contact poling method.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; optical materials; optical polymers; optical resonators; optical waveguides; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; silicon; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; noncontact poling method; optical ring; silicon-polymer hybrid electro-optic modulator; silicon-polymer hybrid slot waveguide; ultra low drive voltage; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical device fabrication; Optical ring resonators; Silicon; Electro-optical devices; integrated optics; optical polymers; silicon-on-insulator technology; slot-waveguide geometry;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8338-9
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053780
