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Lee, Mark; Katz, Howard E.; Erben, Christoph; Gill, Douglas M.; Gopalan, Padma; Heber, Joerg D.; McGee, David J.
Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 11/2002, Letnik: 298, Številka: 5597Journal Article
A major challenge to increasing bandwidth in optical telecommunications is to encode electronic signals onto a lightwave carrier by modulating the light up to very fast rates. Polymer electro-optic materials have the necessary properties to function in photonic devices beyond the 40-GHz bandwidth currently available. An appropriate choice of polymers is shown to effectively eliminate the factors contributing to an optical modulator's decay in the high-frequency response. The resulting device modulates light with a bandwidth of 150 to 200 GHz and produces detectable modulation signal at 1.6 THz. These rates are faster than anticipated bandwidth requirements for the foreseeable future.
