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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
