High-speed, low drive-voltage silicon-organic hybrid modulator based on a binary-chromophore electro-optic material

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 2726-2734

  Palmer, Robert ^a   Koeber, Sebastian ^a   Elder, Delwin L ^c   Woessner, Markus ^a   Heni, Wolfgang ^a,b   Korn, Dietmar ^a   Lauermann, Matthias ^a   Bogaerts, Wim ^d,e   Dalton, Larry ^c   Freude, Wolfgang ^a   Leuthold, Juerg ^a,b   Koos, Christian ^a  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e Luceda Photonics ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electro optic modulators; nonlinear optical devices; photonic integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; HYBRID MATERIALS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATORS; SILICON;

ELECTRO OPTIC COEFFICIENT; ELECTRO-OPTIC MODULATORS; ELECTROOPTIC MATERIALS; HYBRID INTEGRATION; MACH ZEHNDER MODULATOR; NONLINEAR OPTICAL DEVICES; ORGANIC ELECTRO-OPTIC MATERIALS; PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CHROMOPHORES;

EID: 84905011705     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2321498     Document Type: Article

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