Towards a low-loss, ultra-low drive voltage silicon-polymer hybrid electro-optic modulator

Author

Ayazi, Ali ; Baehr-Jones, Tom ; Ding, Ran ; Gould, Michael ; Kim, Woo-Joong ; Spott, Alexander ; Huang, Su ; Luo, Jingdong ; Boyko, Bryan ; Bojko, Richard ; Jen, Alex K-Y ; Dalton, Larry ; Hochberg, Michael

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

252

Lastpage

254

Abstract

New designs for silicon-polymer hybrid slot waveguide based electro-optic modulators are presented, along with new device results for ring and MZI based modulators and for slot waveguides. We also present a novel, non-contact poling method.

Keywords

Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; optical materials; optical polymers; optical resonators; optical waveguides; organic-inorganic hybrid materials; silicon; Mach-Zehnder interferometer; noncontact poling method; optical ring; silicon-polymer hybrid electro-optic modulator; silicon-polymer hybrid slot waveguide; ultra low drive voltage; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Optical device fabrication; Optical ring resonators; Silicon; Electro-optical devices; integrated optics; optical polymers; silicon-on-insulator technology; slot-waveguide geometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2011 8th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

1949-2081

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8338-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GROUP4.2011.6053780

Filename

6053780