@article{b985a555100843b993252cd6e9d2879f,
title = "Hybrid cross-linkable polymer/sol-gel waveguide modulators with 0.65 v half wave voltage at 1550 nm",
abstract = "The authors report on a hybrid cross-linked electro-optic (EO) polymer/sol-gel Mach-Zehnder waveguide modulator with a half wave voltage (Vπ) of 0.65 V at 1550 nm. The low Vπ 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 μm. 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 Vπ.",
author = "Y. Enami and D. Mathine and Derose, {C. T.} and Norwood, {R. A.} and J. Luo and Jen, {A. K.Y.} and N. Peyghambarian",
note = "Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation, MDITR Science and Technology Center through the University of Washington. They would also like to thank Science Foundation of Arizona and DARPA SBIR for their support. One of the authors (Y.E.) thanks the International Communication Foundation, Japan. The authors would also like to thank Lumera Corporation for providing some of the materials in collaboration with the University of Washington. Copyright: Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1063/1.2776369",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "91",
journal = "Applied Physics Letters",
issn = "0003-6951",
publisher = "American Institute of Physics Publising LLC",
number = "9",
}