• DocumentCode
    3203197
  • Title

    Design of high-speed ultra-low Vπ slot waveguide modulators

  • Author

    Witzens, Jeremy ; Baehr-Jones, Thomas ; Ding, Ran ; Liu, Yang ; Hochberg, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    1-3 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    228
  • Lastpage
    230
  • Abstract
    Slot waveguides allow joint confinement of the RF electrical and optical fields in a narrow slot and enable ultra-low driving voltage polymer based modulators with projected Vπ below 250 mV for 10 GHz devices.
  • Keywords
    optical design techniques; optical modulation; optical waveguides; RF electrical fields; frequency 10 GHz; high-speed ultra-low slot waveguide modulators; optical fields; slot waveguides; ultra-low driving voltage polymer based modulators; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Polymers; Radio frequency;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2010 7th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6344-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2010.5643370
  • Filename
    5643370