10.2 - Broadband, low drive-power electrooptic modulator
- 1 November 1967
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
- Vol. 3 (11) , 550-554
- https://doi.org/10.1109/jqe.1967.1074426
Abstract
A compact optical intensity modulator has been constructed and tested which operates at 6328 Å and requires 60 mW of drive power per MHz of operating bandwidth. Intensity modulation of 100 percent was achieved with a transistorized driver delivering 6 watts over a 100-kHz to 10O-MHz bandwidth. The low drive-power performance is obtained by using a KD*P crystal modulator cell having a large length to cross-section ratio and laser beam condensing optics. This paper treats the design of the optical modulator and the results of tests performed over the 100-MHz bandwidth.Keywords
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