Coplanar Electrode Polymer Modulators Incorporating Fluorinated Polyimide Backbone Electro-Optic Polymer

Photonics

Mi-Hye Yi¹  Jae-Won Ka¹  Eun-Su Lee²  Min-Cheol Oh²  Sung-Moon Kim² 

[1] Advanced Functional Polymers Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, Daejeon 34114, Korea;Department of Electronics Engineering, Pusan National University, Pusan 46241, Korea;

关键词: electro-optic polymer;    polymer waveguide devices;    integrated optics;   

DOI  :  10.3390/photonics7040100

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

High-speed coherent optical communication has been expanding to handle the ever-increasing data traffic, and the large modulation bandwidth of electro-optic (EO) polymer modulators has been especially appreciated. However, to be useful in optical communication, the EO polymer device should address several issues, such as thermal stability, photo-oxidation, and bias drift. In this work, as a part of the experiments to address these challenges, an EO polymer with a fluorinated polyimide backbone is utilized to create EO polymer modulators with improved thermal stability. A coplanar electrode structure is introduced to enhance the poling efficiency and reduce the bias drift.

【 授权许可】

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