Improved performance of traveling wave directional coupler modulator based on electro-optic polymer

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8267, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Xingyu ^a   Lee, Beomsuk ^a   Lin, Che Yun ^a   Wang, Alan X ^b   Hosseini, Amir ^c   Lin, Xiaohui ^a   Chen, Ray T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OMEGA OPTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Directional coupler; Domain inversion; Electro optic polymer; Spurious free dynamic range; Traveling wave modulator

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC IMPEDANCE; DIRECTIONAL COUPLER MODULATORS; DOMAIN INVERSION; ELECTRICAL BANDWIDTH; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMERS; HIGH FIDELITY; HIGH FREQUENCY ANALOG; HIGH LINEARITY; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL INSERTION LOSS; OPTICAL WAVES; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY PROCESS; POLYMER BASED; RF WAVES; SIDEWALL ROUGHNESS; SPURIOUS FREE DYNAMIC RANGE; SYMMETRIC WAVEGUIDES; TRAVELING WAVE; TRAVELING-WAVE MODULATOR; TRAVELLING WAVE ELECTRODES; VELOCITY-MATCHING;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84863373090     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.907744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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