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Applications of Organic Electro-Optic Materials in High Speed Electronic Processors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

G. F. Lipscomb ,
R. S. Lytel ,
A. J. Ticknor ,
J. Kenney ,
T. E. Van Eck ,
D. G. Girton  and
E. Binkley
G. F. Lipscomb
Affiliation:
Lockheed Research and Development Division Department 9702, Building 202 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304
R. S. Lytel
Affiliation:
Lockheed Research and Development Division Department 9702, Building 202 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304
A. J. Ticknor
Affiliation:
Lockheed Research and Development Division Department 9702, Building 202 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304
J. Kenney
Affiliation:
Lockheed Research and Development Division Department 9702, Building 202 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304
T. E. Van Eck
Affiliation:
Lockheed Research and Development Division Department 9702, Building 202 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304
D. G. Girton
Affiliation:
Lockheed Research and Development Division Department 9702, Building 202 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304
E. Binkley
Affiliation:
Lockheed Research and Development Division Department 9702, Building 202 3251 Hanover St., Palo Alto, CA 94304
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Abstract

The exceptional electro-optic properties of poled polymer films, coupled with the power and flexibility of thin film fabrication and photolithographic processing, may make possible a new class of integrated optic systems combining the processing power of VLSI with a dense, high bandwidth, photonic interconnection and switching network. We report on the recent development and initial test results of two electro-optic polymer based integrated optic devices for optical interconnection applications. The first is an optical railtap for the distribution of many different optical signals from a single CW laser diode, and the second is a traveling wave Mach-Zehnder integrated optic modulator, which was modulated at frequencies up to 20 GHz.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 228: Symposium N – Materials for Optical Information Processing , 1991 , 15
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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