Demonstration of 110 GHz electro-optic polymer modulators

Electro-optic modulation up to 113 GHz has been demonstrated using traveling wave polymer modulators. The modulation signal was directly detected at 1.3 mu m using a laser heterodyne system with an external-cavity tunable semiconductor laser. The device optical response variation, as a function of frequency over the whole W band, was within 3 dB. A well-matched coplanar probe was used to launch W band millimeter wave driving power into the microstrip line electrode on the device. Based upon these measurements, high speed electrodes with integrated millimeter wave transitions had been fabricated and tested. (C) 1997 American Institute of Physics.