Achieving higher modulation efficiency in electrooptic polymer modulator with slotted silicon waveguide

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 3310-3318

  Chen, Antao ^a   Sun, Haishan ^a   Szep, Attila ^b   Shi, Shouyuan ^c   Prather, Dennis ^c   Lin, Zhou ^b   Kim, Richard S ^b   Abeysinghe, Don ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulators; integrated optics; optical waveguides; silicon devices

Indexed keywords

COPLANAR WAVEGUIDE ELECTRODES; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMERS; HALF-WAVE; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETRIC MODULATORS; MODULATION EFFICIENCY; NANOPHOTONIC STRUCTURES; POLING EFFICIENCIES; RADIOFREQUENCY SIGNALS; SILICON DEVICES; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SLOT WAVEGUIDE; SURFACE PASSIVATION; TRAVELLING WAVE ELECTRODES; WAVEGUIDE DESIGN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPLANAR WAVEGUIDES; DESIGN; EFFICIENCY; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; NANOPHOTONICS; PASSIVATION; PHOTONICS; POLYMERS;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 80055057132     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2168385     Document Type: Article

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