Polymer electro-optic devices for integrated optics

Steier, William H.; Chen, Antao; Lee, Sang‐Shin; Garner, Sean; Zhang, Hua; Chuyanov, Vadim; Dalton, Larry R.; Wang, Fang; Ren, Albert; Zhang, Cheng; Todorova, Grozdena; Harper, Aaron W.; Fetterman, Harold R.; Chen, Datong; Udupa, A.; Bhattacharya, D.; Tsap, B.

doi:10.1016/s0301-0104(99)00042-7

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“…For all-organic devices, polymer cladding layers are typically deposited on top of the OEO film to create a triple stack sandwich consisting of cladding layer-active OEO layer-cladding layer [7,[108][109][110][111][112][113][114]. The OEO material must be sufficiently hard and inert to the solvent used for cladding deposition that pitting of the OEO layer does not occur.…”

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Theory-Guided Design of Organic Electro-Optic Materials and Devices

Dalton

Benight

2011

Polymers

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Integrated (multi-scale) quantum and statistical mechanical theoretical methods have guided the nano-engineering of controlled intermolecular electrostatic interactions for the dramatic improvement of acentric order and thus electro-optic activity of melt-processable organic polymer and dendrimer electro-optic materials. New measurement techniques have permitted quantitative determination of the molecular order parameters, lattice dimensionality, and nanoscale viscoelasticity properties of these new soft matter materials and have facilitated comparison of theoretically-predicted structures and thermodynamic properties with experimentally-defined structures and properties. New processing protocols have permitted further enhancement of material properties and have facilitated the fabrication of complex device structures. The integration of organic electro-optic materials into silicon photonic, plasmonic, and metamaterial device architectures has led to impressive new performance metrics for a variety of technological applications.

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Theory-Guided Design of Organic Electro-Optic Materials and Devices

Dalton

Benight

2011

Polymers

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“…Polymeric waveguide based photonics devices have been extensively researched [9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Electro-optic (EO) polymers with high EO coefficients have been developed [14,15].…”

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“…Electro-optic (EO) polymers with high EO coefficients have been developed [14,15]. High performance polymer EO modulators have also been developed [10][11][12][13]. Polymers also have a large thermo-optic (TO) coefficient which can be used for the development of optical switches and variable optical attenuators (VOA).…”

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Polymeric Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access (CDMA) Encoder and Decoder Modules

Chen

2011

Polymers

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Abstract:We propose a low cost polymeric optical waveguides-based optical CDMA encoder and decoder modules. The structures of the optical CDMA encoder and decoder modules are presented. The performance of the optical CDMA encoder and decoder modules is simulated using 10-chip binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) coding schemes. The optical CDMA encoder and decoder modules can effectively transmit and recover optical CDMA data streams. The SNR of the received signal is analyzed and determined to be primarily from the cross correlation with other channels.

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“…Compared to the limitations of traditional inorganic crystal modulators in terms of the EO coefficient (r 33 ∼ 30 pm∕V), the use of a synthesized EO polymer allows a higher EO coefficient (r 33 ¼ 138 pm∕V at 1550 nm) due to the progress of chromophore synthesis and the high efficiency of poling; this improvement allows for a better modulation efficiency [5] and extremely high modulation speeds of over 150 GHz [6,7] . These benefits are crucial in creating an efficient optical modulator design, either in terms of a realized phase or intensity [8][9][10] modulations. The high sensitivity of phase and intensity modulators has been crucial in various applications, such as opto-electronic oscillators [11] and optical deflectors in an all-optical analog to digital converter [12] .…”

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Sensitivity improvement of broadband electro-optic polymer-based optical phase modulator using 1D and 2D photonic crystal structures

Receveur¹,

Wei²,

Hadjloum³

et al. 2017

Chin. Opt. Lett.

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This Letter introduces the design and simulation of a microstrip-line-based electro-optic (EO) polymer optical phase modulator (PM) that is further enhanced by the addition of photonic crystal (PhC) structures that are in close proximity to the optical core. The slow-wave PhC structure is designed for two different material configurations and placed in the modulator as a superstrate to the optical core; simulation results are depicted for both 1D and 2D PhC structures. The PM characteristics are modeled using a combination of the finite element method and the optical beam propagation method in both the RF and optical domains, respectively. The phase-shift simulation results show a factor of 1.7 increase in an effective EO coefficient (120 pm/V) while maintaining a broadband bandwidth of 40 GHz.OCIS The combination of silicon photonics and electro-optic (EO) polymers in optical devices enables the fabrication of high-level photonic device integration [1] using CMOS compatible nanofabrication technology [2] . The use of EO polymers allows for a large EO coefficient (r 33 ), very low dispersion, a fast response time (<1 ps), and simple fabrication [3,4] . Compared to the limitations of traditional inorganic crystal modulators in terms of the EO coefficient (r 33 ∼ 30 pm∕V), the use of a synthesized EO polymer allows a higher EO coefficient (r 33 ¼ 138 pm∕V at 1550 nm) due to the progress of chromophore synthesis and the high efficiency of poling; this improvement allows for a better modulation efficiency [5] and extremely high modulation speeds of over 150 GHz [6,7]

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Polymer electro-optic devices for integrated optics

Cited by 106 publications

References 21 publications

Theory-Guided Design of Organic Electro-Optic Materials and Devices

Theory-Guided Design of Organic Electro-Optic Materials and Devices

Polymeric Optical Code-Division Multiple-Access (CDMA) Encoder and Decoder Modules

Sensitivity improvement of broadband electro-optic polymer-based optical phase modulator using 1D and 2D photonic crystal structures

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