Title :
Photo-bleaching induced electro-optic polymer modulators with dual driving electrodes operating at 1.55 μm wavelength
Author :
Kim, Seongku ; Geary, K. ; Fetterman, H.R. ; Zhang, C. ; Wang, C. ; Steier, W.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
Electro-optic (EO) polymeric Mach-Zehnder (MZ) modulators with photo-bleaching (PB) induced waveguides and dual driving electrodes operating at 1.55 μm wavelength have been demonstrated. The half-wave voltage of the integrated polymeric modulator was 4.5 V in a push-pull configuration with a 1.5 cm interaction length. The extinction ratio was greater than 20 dB, and the fibre-to-fibre insertion loss was 8 dB for the TM polarisation. The achieved fibre-to-fibre insertion loss and driving voltage are the best, to the authors knowledge, in the reported PB induced MZ EO polymeric modulators.
Keywords :
Mach-Zehnder interferometers; electro-optical modulation; optical waveguide components; 1.55 micron; 4.5 V; 8 dB; Mach-Zehnder modulators; dual driving electrodes; electro-optic polymer modulators; extinction ratio; fibre-to-fibre insertion loss; halfwave voltage; photo-bleaching induced waveguides; push pull configuration;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20030873
