COMPACT AMPLITUDE ELECTRO-OPTICAL MODULATOR BASED ON CHROMOPHORE-CONTAINING POLYIMIDES
S. L. Mikerin1,2, A. I. Plekhanov1, A. E. Simanchuk1,2, A. V. Yakimanskii3, A. A. Martynenkov3, N. A. Valisheva4
1Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, prosp. Academika Koptyuga 1, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
2Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, prosp. Akademika Lavrent'eva 9, Novosibirsk, 630090
3Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, Bol'shoi prospect 31, V.O., St. Petersburg, 199004
4Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, prosp. Akademika Lavrent'eva 9, Novosibirsk, 630090
Keywords: электрооптические полимеры, радиофотоника, электрооптический модулятор, интерферометр Маха - Цендера, electro-optic polymers, radio-photonics, electro-optical modulator, Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Abstract
This paper presents the results of development and investigation of compact waveguide electro-optical modulators using original synthesized chromophore-containing polyimides with covalently attached commercial DR-13 dye. Fully polymer electro-optical planar structures with phase-polarization and amplitude modulators in the form of a Mach - Zehnder interferometer were developed and implemented. The characteristics of the developed modulators at a wavelength of 1.3 μm were investigated, and a half-wave voltage of 24 B for the active part of the modulator 1.3 cm long was achieved.
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