Title :
Design of high-speed ultra-low Vπ slot waveguide modulators
Author :
Witzens, Jeremy ; Baehr-Jones, Thomas ; Ding, Ran ; Liu, Yang ; Hochberg, Michael
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
Slot waveguides allow joint confinement of the RF electrical and optical fields in a narrow slot and enable ultra-low driving voltage polymer based modulators with projected Vπ below 250 mV for 10 GHz devices.
Keywords :
optical design techniques; optical modulation; optical waveguides; RF electrical fields; frequency 10 GHz; high-speed ultra-low slot waveguide modulators; optical fields; slot waveguides; ultra-low driving voltage polymer based modulators; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6344-2
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2010.5643370
