Hybrid cross-linkable polymer/sol-gel waveguide modulators with 0.65 V half wave voltage at 1550 nm

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作者：

Enami, Y. ^{[2
]}

Mathine, D.

DeRose, C. T.

Norwood, R. A.

Luo, J.

Jen, A. K. -Y.

Peyghambarian, N.

机构：

[1] Univ Washington, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Seattle, WA 98195 USA

[2] Univ Arizona, Coll Opt Sci, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

来源：

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS | 2007年 / 91卷 / 09期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会;

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10.1063/1.2776369

中图分类号：

O59 [应用物理学];

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摘要：

The authors report on a hybrid cross-linked electro- optic (EO) polymer/sol-gel Mach-Zehnder waveguide modulator with a half wave voltage (V-pi) of 0.65 V at 1550 nm. The low V-pi was achieved by a design that (1) combines both physical vertical tapers in the sol-gel core and photobleached index tapers in the EO polymer and (2) reduces the thickness of the device to 8 mu m. These combined physical and index tapers result in improved optical mode confinement in the EO polymer with low adiabatic optical transition loss. The reduced thickness results in a larger field across the EO polymer for the same voltage, enabling a lower V-pi. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.

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