Polymer-based electrooptical circular-polarization modulator

Author

Yang, Jianyi ; Zhou, Qingjun ; Jiang, Xiaoqing ; Wang, Minghua ; Chen, Ray T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci. & Electron. Eng., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

Volume

16

Issue

1

fYear

2004

Firstpage

96

Lastpage

98

Abstract

An integrated circular-polarization modulator (CPM) is designed and fabricated with electrooptic (EO) polymeric materials employing contact poling. Tilted-poling is employed to activate the conversion between TE and TM modes, while the tensor nature of the poled polymeric materials is used to generate the phase-difference modulation. With appropriate voltage control, the outputs at the 45°-tilted linear, left-hand-circular (LHC), -45°-tilted linear, and right-hand-circular (RHC) polarization states are achieved. The extinction ratios at the linearly polarized states are larger than 25 dB.

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; integrated optics; light polarisation; optical polarisers; optical polymers; TE modes; TM modes; contact poling; electrooptic polymeric materials; linear polarization states; linearly polarized states; optical design; optical fabrication; phase-difference modulation; poled polymeric materials; polymer-based electrooptical circular-polarization modulator; right-hand-circular polarization states; tensor nature; tilted-poling; Electrodes; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical fiber polarization; Optical modulation; Optical polarization; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Phase modulation; Tellurium;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2003.820455

Filename

1255963