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OPTICA
Volume 5, Issue 6, Pages 739-748Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000739
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- European Research Council (ERC) [280145]
- European Commission
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [383043731]
- Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung
- Helmholtz International Research School for Teratronics (HIRST)
- Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics (KSOP)
- Karlsruhe Nano-Micro Facility (KNMF)
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DMR-1303080]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-15-1-0319]
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1303080] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Efficient electro-optic (EO) modulators crucially rely on advanced materials that exhibit strong electro-optic activity and that can be integrated into high-speed and efficient phase shifter structures. In this paper, we demonstrate ultrahigh in-device EO figures of merit of up to n(3)r(33) = 2300 pm/V achieved in a silicon-organic hybrid (SOH) Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) using the EO chromophore JRD1. This is the highest material-related in-device EO figure of merit hitherto achieved in a high-speed modulator at any operating wavelength. The at-voltage of the 1.5-mm-long device amounts to 210 mV, leading to a voltage-length product of UnL = 320 V mu m-the lowest value reported for MZM that are based on low-loss dielectric waveguides. The viability of the devices is demonstrated by generating highquality on-off-keying signals at 40 Gbit/s with Q factors in excess of 8 at a drive voltage as low as 140 mV(pp) . We expect that efficient high-speed EO modulators will not only have a major impact in the field of optical communications, but will also open new avenues towards ultrafast photonic-electronic signal processing. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement
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