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Quadratic Electro-Optic Effect in Silicon-Organic Hybrid Slot-Waveguides

Quadratic Electro-Optic Effect in Silicon-Organic Hybrid Slot-Waveguides

Patrick Steglich, Christian Mai, Claus Villringer, Silvio Pulwer, Mauro Casalboni, Sigurd Schrader, Andreas Mai

Opt Lett. 2018 Aug 1;43(15):3598-3601.

PMID: 30067633

Abstract:

This Letter reports on the quadratic electro-optic effect of polymers, observed in a silicon slot-waveguide at low voltages. We demonstrate that in narrow slots, the electro-optic response with respect to refractive index change is strong enough for on-chip wavelength tuning and intensity modulation using voltages as low as 1 V. A silicon slot-waveguide embedded by a nonlinear optical polymer, consisting of the dye Disperse Red 1 in poly(methyl methacrylate), serves as the phase shifter in a racetrack ring resonator. As deduced from the experimental data, the third-order susceptibility of the utilized electro-optic polymer is about 2·10-19 m2/V2. The demonstrated low-voltage operation and inherently thermal stability show the potential for silicon-organic hybrid devices using the quadratic electro-optic effect.

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Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP103553486	Disperse Red 1 methacrylate		103553-48-6	Price
AP139096370	Poly(Disperse Red 1 methacrylate)		139096-37-0	Price

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