Polymer in-line fiber modulators for broadband radio-frequency optical links

Hamilton, Scott A.; Yankelevich, Diego R.; Knoesen, A.; Weverka, Robert T.; Hill, Richard A.; Bjorklund, G. C.

doi:10.1364/josab.15.000740

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“…This commonly leads to a poor modulation efficiency and a slow modulation speed. To our best knowledge, the fastest records of lumped and traveling-wave fiber-integrated EOMs are 250 MHz and 5 GHz for 3-dB bandwidths, respectively 29 .…”

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“…To circumvent the coupling complexity and further reduce coupling losses, a feasible solution is to directly integrate EOMs within optical fibers, connecting EOM devices with light sources using standard interfaces of optical fibers. For the sake of all-fiber operations, hybrid configurations using tunable materials and specially possessed optical fibers, for instance, tapered optical fibers [25][26][27][28] , D-shaped optical fibers 24,29,30 and photonic crystal fibers 31,32 , have been demonstrated to modulate the amplitude of guided light. However, tunable materials in most of such configurations are only allowed to interact with evanescent fields of the light.…”

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Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators

Zhang,

Sun,

et al. 2023

Light Sci Appl

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Digitalizing optical signals through electric driving signals, electro-optic modulators (EOMs) are one of the cardinal elements in modern optical communications. Most of current EOM devices are targeting on-chip integrations, which routinely suffer from high coupling losses, complex optical alignments and single-band operations. In this study, we for the first time integrate a lumped EOM device on the endfaces of a single-mode optical fiber jumper for fast amplitude modulations. Profiting from ultrathin and high quality-factor plasmonic metasurfaces, nanofabrication-friendly and highly efficient EO polymers and coupling-free connections with fiber networks, our EOM is demonstrated to allow dual-band operations (telecom O band and S band) and high-speed modulations (~1 GHz at a bias voltage of ±9 V). This work offers an avenue to ‘plug-and-play’ implementations of EO devices and ultracompact “all-in-fibers” optical systems for communications, imaging, sensing and many others.

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confidence: 99%

Plasmonic metafibers electro-optic modulators

Zhang,

Sun,

et al. 2023

Light Sci Appl

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“…Furthermore, they are more compatible with silica fibres in other parts of the system. Hence there are considerable interests in R & D of polymer EO fibres or fibre-optic devices [17][18][19][20].…”

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Electro-optic polymer optical fibers and their device applications

Peng¹,

Chu³

2002

SPIE Proceedings

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This paper will report recent developments in electro-optic polymer optical fibres. We discuss mainly the experimental work done by the Photonics and Optical Communications Group in the University of New South Wales. The relevant issues regarding material processing, design and fabrication of electric-optic polymer fibres and devices will be addressed. In particular, electro-optical polymer fibres that incorporating various electrooptic organic materials, including the well-known disperse red 1, the synthetically attached DR1 side chain monomers, optical liquid crystals, etc, have been fabricated and investigated.

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