期刊
JOURNAL OF LIGHTWAVE TECHNOLOGY
卷 33, 期 10, 页码 1937-1947出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2015.2388738
关键词
BaTiO3 crystal thin-film; electro-optic (EO) modulator; first-order and second-order nonlinear EO modulation effects; half-wave voltage; interaction length; ultrahigh modulation bandwidth
资金
- R&D/Education Fund Society of Changchun University of Science and Technology, China
- Angel Investment of the D&T Photonics, Inc.
- University of Ottawa, Canada, under the 321 Grant of Nanjing Government, China
Single-channel 100 GHz and higher bandwidth external optical modulators are dramatically demanded to realize the aggregate carrier data rate of 100 Tb/s per optic-fiber in next-generation optical networks, but the current technologies used in industrial systems have never shown any feasibility to reach such high-speed operations. In this study, the feasible potential of ultrahigh bandwidths higher than 100 GHz are theoretically demonstrated for waveguide electro-optic (EO) modulators with c-axis-oriented BaTiO3 crystal thin-films. As the three dominant factors of determining the bandwidths of EO modulators, the interaction length L, the absolute refractive difference of light-wave and microwave vertical bar N-m-N-o vertical bar determining the velocity mismatch, and the microwave loss coefficient are investigated to realize the ultrahigh bandwidths of over 100 GHz, where L is a weight factor of both the velocity mismatch and the microwave loss. Thus, in this process, the nonlinear EO modulation effects are taken into account to determine the L values with respect to the values of EO coefficient r(51) under a given half-wave voltage V-pi. Then, the optimal tradeoff conditions for the over 100 GHz bandwidths are obtained with the consistent relations among the interaction length, the optical loss, the electrode gap, and the overlap integral of optical and electrical fields, the refractive index difference between the optical guided-mode and the microwave. As a result, for an industrial acceptable V-pi of 5.0 V and a feasible absolute birefringence b(epsilon o) of 0.005, at the EO coefficient r(51) values of over 550 pm/V an optimal device in both optical rib waveguide and microwave electrode dimensions shows the illustrative results of over 100 GHz bandwidth in the believable simulations albeit both the velocity mismatch and the microwave loss are taken into account in simulations under a microwave impedance matching, which are all reachable in the real c-axis BaTiO3 crystal thin-film.
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