Highly linear broadband optical modulator based on electro-optic polymer

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2214-2228

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

reversal; directional coupler; electro optic (EO) polymer; Linear modulator; spurious free dynamic range (SFDR); traveling wave electrode

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH-LENGTH PRODUCT; BROAD BANDWIDTHS; DIRECTIONAL COUPLER MODULATORS; ELECTRO-OPTIC POLYMERS; ELECTROOPTIC POLYMER; HIGH LINEARITY; LOW MICROWAVE LOSS; MODULATION FREQUENCIES; MULTI-MODE INTERFERENCE; OPTICAL INSERTION LOSS; PROFILE TRANSFORMATION; SPURIOUS-FREE DYNAMIC RANGE; TRAVELING WAVE; TRAVELING WAVE ELECTRODES; VELOCITY-MATCHING;

BANDWIDTH; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; LIGHT MODULATORS; POLYMERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 84870946809     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2228477     Document Type: Article

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