High performance electro-optic polymer waveguide device
- 29 December 1997
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 71 (26) , 3779-3781
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.120541
Abstract
A high performance electro-optic polymer modulator is fabricated by utilizing a thermally curable cladding polymer. Half-wave modulation voltage as low as 3.7 and 4.8 V under 500 Hz operation is obtained with a 1.5 cm long electrode at wavelengths of 1.3 and 1.55 m, respectively. The modulator also shows stable dc bias voltage to be traceable and low poling-induced optical loss. This work implies that proper selection of a cladding material is as important as the electro-optic materials in the electro-optic waveguide devices.
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