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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 91, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.2776369
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The authors report on a hybrid cross-linked electro- optic (EO) polymer/sol-gel Mach-Zehnder waveguide modulator with a half wave voltage (V-pi) of 0.65 V at 1550 nm. The low V-pi was achieved by a design that (1) combines both physical vertical tapers in the sol-gel core and photobleached index tapers in the EO polymer and (2) reduces the thickness of the device to 8 mu m. These combined physical and index tapers result in improved optical mode confinement in the EO polymer with low adiabatic optical transition loss. The reduced thickness results in a larger field across the EO polymer for the same voltage, enabling a lower V-pi. (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics.
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