Improved Carrier-to-Sideband Ratio for Free Space Millimeter Wave-Coupled Electro-Optic Polymer High Speed Phase Modulators

Published/Posted: April 18, 2015

Authors: Park; D. H.; Pagán, V. R.; Murphy, T. E.; Luo, J.; Jen, A. K.; Herman, W. N.

DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2015.STh3F.7

Abstract: The carrier-to-sideband ratio was improved more than 20 dB by using a SiO2 protection layer in antenna-coupled electro-optic phase modulators operating at 37 GHz based on an in-plane polymeric waveguide using the nonlinear polymer. We also demonstrate detection of 3-GHz modulation of the RF carrier.

Citation:
D. H. Park, V. R. Pagán, T. E. Murphy, J. Luo, A. K. Jen and W. N. Herman, "Improved Carrier-to-Sideband Ratio for Free Space Millimeter Wave-Coupled Electro-Optic Polymer High Speed Phase Modulators", Conference on Lasers and Electrooptics (CLEO), San Jose, CA (USA) STh3F.7 (2015)