A BROAD-BAND TI-LINBO3 OPTICAL MODULATOR WITH A RIDGE STRUCTURE

被引:103
作者
NOGUCHI, K
MITOMI, O
MIYAZAWA, H
SEKI, S
机构
[1] NTT Opto-electronics Laboratories, 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi-Shi
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10.1109/50.390234
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We describe the design, fabrication, and characteristics of a Ti:LiNbO3 optical modulator with a ridge structure. The structure keeps microwave propagation loss low and enables a large interaction between microwaves and optical waves under the conditions of velocity-matching and impedance matching, resulting in a large modulation bandwidth and low driving voltage. Using this structure, we have developed an optical intensity modulator with an optical 3-dB band width of 75 GHz and a driving voltage of 5.0 V at a wavelength of 1.5 mu m.
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