New electrooptic polymer configurations for high frequency modulators and digital signal processing applications

Recent advances in polymer materials have significantly increase the available electrooptic coefficients. This has now stimulated the development of new designs and configurations for high frequency optical modulators. In addition, it has opened up the field to new applications including high speed optical Digital Signal Processing. The initial areas investigated include linear modulators, true time delays and arbitrary waveform generation. More complex devices with multiple elements in series are now being investigated.