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Electro-optic polymer ring resonator modulators [Invited]

Journal

CHINESE OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages -

Publisher

Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.3788/COL202119.041301

Keywords

electro-optic polymer; ring resonator; high-bandwidth modulator

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  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [62075184]

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Electro-optic (EO) ring resonator modulators are versatile devices with applications in communication and scientific fields, especially those utilizing EO polymers with high EO coefficients and ultrafast response times. Research in this area focuses on the operation principles, modulation mechanisms, and improvement of EO modulation in ring modulators using EO polymers as the waveguide core. Additionally, advancements in EO polymers on silicon platforms, such as slot modulators and athermal modulators, are also reviewed.
Electro-optic (EO) ring resonator modulators have a number of communications and scientific applications, including analog optical links, optical signal processing, and frequency comb generation. Among the EO materials used to fabricate ring modulators, the EO polymer has many promising characteristics, including a high EO coefficient of 100-200 pm/V (3-7 times larger than that of LiNbO3), an ultrafast EO response time (< 10 fs), a low dielectric constant (3 to 4) with very little dispersion up to at least 250 GHz, and a straightforward spin-coating fabrication process. These inherent characteristics will be able to combine excellent EO properties with simple processing in achieving exceptional performance in a variety of high-speed optical modulation and sensing devices. This review focuses on the research and recent development of ring resonator modulators based on EO polymers. The first part describes the operation principle of EO ring resonator modulators, such as modulation mechanism, EO tunability, and 3 dB bandwidth. Subsequently, the emphasis is placed on the discussion of the ring modulators with EO polymers as the waveguide core and the improvement of EO modulation by using an EO polymer/titanium dioxide hybrid core. At the end, a series of EO polymers on silicon platforms including slot modulators, etching-free modulators, and athermal modulators are reviewed.

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