Efficient poling of electro-optic polymers in thin films and silicon slot waveguides by detachable pyroelectric crystals.

Huang, Su; Luo, Jingdong; Yip, Hin-Lap; Ayazi, Ali; Zhou, Xing-Hua; Gould, Michael; Chen, Antao; Baehr-Jones, Tom et al. · Adv Mater · 2012

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Pyroelectric crystals are used as a conformal and detachable electric field source to efficiently pole electro-optic (E-O) polymers in both parallel-plate (transverse) and in-plane (quasi-longitudinal) configurations. Large Pockels coefficients in poled thin films and high tunability of resonance wavelength shift in hybrid polymer silicon slot waveguide ring-resonator modulators have been achieved using this method.

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