16-arrayed electrooptic polymer modulator

Author

Park, Suntak ; Ju, Jung Jin ; Do, Jung Yun ; Park, Seung Koo ; Ahn, Joon Tae ; Kim, Sung-Il ; Lee, Myung-Hyun

Author_Institution

Opt. Commun. Devices Dept., ETRI, Daejon, South Korea

Volume

16

Issue

8

fYear

2004

Firstpage

1834

Lastpage

1836

Abstract

A 16-arrayed polymeric optical modulator is fabricated using an electrooptic (EO) polymer with a large EO coefficient and good thermal stability. The 16-arrayed modulator has lumped-type electrodes with a response time of less than 1 ns. The 16-arrayed modulator has good uniform modulation characteristics between the individual modulators. The deviation of half-wave voltages is 0.2 V and that of insertion losses about 1 dB. Crosstalks range from -28 to -36 dB and extinction ratios are more than 21 dB.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; optical arrays; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fabrication; optical losses; optical polymers; 0.2 V; 16-arrayed electrooptic polymer modulator; 16-arrayed modulator; Mach-Zehnder interferometers; WDM optical communications; crosstalk; half-wave voltages; insertion losses; lumped-type electrodes; thermal stability; wavelength division multiplexing; Crosstalk; Delay; Electrodes; Electrooptic modulators; Extinction ratio; Insertion loss; Optical modulation; Optical polymers; Thermal stability; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2004.831309

Filename

1316939