Optical transmission stability of hybrid sol-gel silica/electrooptic polymer waveguide modulators

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 20, 2011, Pages 1508-1510

  Enami, Y ^a   Hong, J ^a   Zhang, C ^b   Luo, J ^c   Jen, A K Y ^c  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic (EO) modulators; EO polymers; hybrid waveguide; optical stability

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; EO POLYMER; HYBRID SOL-GEL; HYBRID WAVEGUIDES; INPUT POWER; OPTICAL STABILITY; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX CHANGES; SOL-GEL SILICA; TAPERED STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL BEAM PROPAGATION; WAVE-GUIDING; WAVEGUIDE TRANSITION;

GELS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHOTOBLEACHING; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SILICA; SOL-GEL PROCESS; SOL-GELS; SOLS; WAVE FILTERS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 80053272927     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2163183     Document Type: Article

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