DC biased electro-optic polymer waveguide modulators with low half-wave voltage and high thermal stability

Antao Chen; Vadim Chuyanov; Hua Zhang; Sean M. Garner; Sang-Shin Lee; William H. Steier; Jinghong Chen; Fang Wang; Jingsong Zhu; Mingqian He; Younsoo Ra; Shane S. H. Mao; Aaron W. Harper; Larry Raymond Dalton; Harold R. Fetterman

doi:10.1117/1.602303

1 December 1999 DC biased electro-optic polymer waveguide modulators with low half-wave voltage and high thermal stability

Antao Chen, Vadim Chuyanov, Hua Zhang, Sean M. Garner, Sang-Shin Lee, William H. Steier, Jinghong Chen, Fang Wang, Jingsong Zhu, Mingqian He, Younsoo Ra, Shane S. H. Mao, Aaron W. Harper, Larry Raymond Dalton, Harold R. Fetterman

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 38, Issue 12, (December 1999). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602303

The full potential of second-order nonlinear polymers can be utilized in electro-optic polymer modulators with a DC biased operation scheme to greatly reduce the half-wave voltage. This technique makes use of the total achievable electro-optic coefficient, which can be more than three times the value that is used by the conventional devices of poled electro-optic polymer. As the result of the DC bias and with high-?? chromophores, a low half-wave voltage of 1.5 V was achieved with 2-cm-long birefringent waveguide modulators at the wavelength of 1.3??. Results of a 200°C stability experiment indicate that this scheme also enables electro-optic polymer devices to meet the short-term high- temperature stability requirement because the polymer does not need to be poled prior to high-temperature steps.

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Antao Chen, Vadim Chuyanov, Hua Zhang, Sean M. Garner, Sang-Shin Lee, William H. Steier, Jinghong Chen, Fang Wang, Jingsong Zhu, Mingqian He, Younsoo Ra, Shane S. H. Mao, Aaron W. Harper, Larry Raymond Dalton, and Harold R. Fetterman "DC biased electro-optic polymer waveguide modulators with low half-wave voltage and high thermal stability," Optical Engineering 38(12), (1 December 1999). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.602303

Published: 1 December 1999

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