Packaged high-speed electro-optic polymer modulators

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6331, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Dinu, Raluca ^a   Jin, Danliang ^a   Huang, Diyun ^a   Koenig, Mary K ^a   Barklund, Anna M ^a   Fang, Yun ^a   Parker, Timothy C ^a  

^a Lumera Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic polymers; High speed modulators; Optical loss; Wideband modulators

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CHROMOPHORES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ELECTROOPTIC POLYMERS; HIGH SPEED MODULATORS; OPTICAL LOSS; WIDEBAND MODULATORS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 33751415561     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.680886     Document Type: Conference Paper

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