Design optimization of Z-cut lithium niobate electrooptic modulator with profiled metal electrodes and waveguides

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 3722-3729

  Gorman, T ^a   Haxha, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulator; Full wave; Integrated optics; Lithium niobate (LN); Optical communications

Indexed keywords

100 GHZ; BUFFER LAYER THICKNESS; CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCES; DESIGN OPTIMIZATIONS; DEVICE PARAMETERS; EFFECTIVE INDICES; ELECTRODE HEIGHTS; ELECTROOPTIC MODULATOR; FINITE ELEMENTS; FREQUENCY DEPENDENTS; FREQUENCY RANGES; FULL WAVE; HALF-WAVE VOLTAGES; HIGH BANDWIDTHS; HIGH FREQUENCIES; HIGH-SPEED OPERATIONS; LITHIUM NIOBATE (LN); METAL ELECTRODES; MICROWAVE LOSS; NOVEL DESIGNS; NUMERICAL - TECHNIQUES; ULTRA-HIGH SPEED;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LITHIUM; MICROWAVES; MODULATION; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTONICS; WAVEGUIDES;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 56549105706     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.909329     Document Type: Article

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