Design and fabrication techniques of wide-band or highspeed guided-wave electrooptic modulators are reviewed. It is shown that the traveling-wave type operation is promising because of the large bandwidth possible, even with velocity mismatching. Also the modulating electrodes, an asymmetrical planar strip line, is adequate for wide-band operation owing to the small discontinuity effect at the feeding and terminating ends.Various types of guided-wave modulators were constructed and tested. One of these, a push-pull interferometer type intensity modulator was operated successfully up to 18 GHz. Its half-wave voltage and extinction ratio were 8.8 V and 98 % at 0.633 μπι, respectively. The l/J/2 bandwidth was 11.2 GHz, and P/Af figure for 88% intensity modulation (or 1 rad peak retardation) was 11.6 μ\Μ/ΜΗζ. Possible applications of high-speed guidedwave components are also discussed.