Electro-optic modulator with exceptional powersize performance enabled by transparent conducting electrodes

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 6779-6796

  Yi, Fei ^a   Ou, Fang ^a   Liu, Boyang ^a   Huang, Yingyan ^a   Ho, Seng Tiong ^a   Wang, Yiliang ^b   Liu, Jun ^b   Marks, Tobin J ^b   Huang, Su ^c   Luo, Jingdong ^c   Jen, Alex K Y ^c   Dinu, Raluca ^d   Jin, Dan ^d  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d GigOptix Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; MODULATION; WAVEGUIDES;

DUAL DRIVES; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; EO POLYMER; FIGURE OF MERIT; HALF-WAVE VOLTAGE; HIGH-SPEED; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; NEW STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTICAL MODULATION; PHASE MODULATOR; RIB WAVEGUIDES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING ELECTRODES; TRANSPARENT CONDUCTING OXIDE ELECTRODES;

MODULATORS;

POLYMER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICS; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; POLYMERS;

EID: 77950287312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.006779     Document Type: Article

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