500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics
Broadband electro-optic intensity modulators are essential to convert electrical signals to the optical domain. The growing interest in terahertz wireless applications demands modulators with frequency responses to the sub-terahertz range, high power handling, and very low nonlinear distortions, sim...
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| author | Maurizio Burla Claudia Hoessbacher Wolfgang Heni Christian Haffner Yuriy Fedoryshyn Dominik Werner Tatsuhiko Watanabe Hermann Massler Delwin L. Elder Larry R. Dalton Juerg Leuthold |
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| description | Broadband electro-optic intensity modulators are essential to convert electrical signals to the optical domain. The growing interest in terahertz wireless applications demands modulators with frequency responses to the sub-terahertz range, high power handling, and very low nonlinear distortions, simultaneously. However, a modulator with all those characteristics has not been demonstrated to date. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that plasmonic modulators do not trade-off any performance parameter, featuring—at the same time—a short length of tens of micrometers, record-high flat frequency response beyond 500 GHz, high power handling, and high linearity, and we use them to create a sub-terahertz radio-over-fiber analog optical link. These devices have the potential to become a new tool in the general field of microwave photonics, making the sub-terahertz range accessible to, e.g., 5G wireless communications, antenna remoting, Internet of Things, sensing, and more. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f90567841de547009d930da806bcc3b12022-12-21T19:49:06ZengAIP Publishing LLCAPL Photonics2378-09672019-05-0145056106056106-1110.1063/1.5086868008905APP500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonicsMaurizio Burla0Claudia Hoessbacher1Wolfgang Heni2Christian Haffner3Yuriy Fedoryshyn4Dominik Werner5Tatsuhiko Watanabe6Hermann Massler7Delwin L. Elder8Larry R. Dalton9Juerg Leuthold10Institute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, Zurich 8092, SwitzerlandInstitute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, Zurich 8092, SwitzerlandInstitute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, Zurich 8092, SwitzerlandInstitute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, Zurich 8092, SwitzerlandInstitute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, Zurich 8092, SwitzerlandInstitute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, Zurich 8092, SwitzerlandInstitute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, Zurich 8092, SwitzerlandFraunhofer IAF, Tullastraße 72, 79108 Freiburg im Breisgau, GermanyDepartment of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, USADepartment of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195-1700, USAInstitute of Electromagnetic Fields, ETH Zurich, Gloriastrasse 35, Zurich 8092, SwitzerlandBroadband electro-optic intensity modulators are essential to convert electrical signals to the optical domain. The growing interest in terahertz wireless applications demands modulators with frequency responses to the sub-terahertz range, high power handling, and very low nonlinear distortions, simultaneously. However, a modulator with all those characteristics has not been demonstrated to date. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that plasmonic modulators do not trade-off any performance parameter, featuring—at the same time—a short length of tens of micrometers, record-high flat frequency response beyond 500 GHz, high power handling, and high linearity, and we use them to create a sub-terahertz radio-over-fiber analog optical link. These devices have the potential to become a new tool in the general field of microwave photonics, making the sub-terahertz range accessible to, e.g., 5G wireless communications, antenna remoting, Internet of Things, sensing, and more.http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5086868 |
| spellingShingle | Maurizio Burla Claudia Hoessbacher Wolfgang Heni Christian Haffner Yuriy Fedoryshyn Dominik Werner Tatsuhiko Watanabe Hermann Massler Delwin L. Elder Larry R. Dalton Juerg Leuthold 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics APL Photonics |
| title | 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics |
| title_full | 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics |
| title_fullStr | 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics |
| title_full_unstemmed | 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics |
| title_short | 500 GHz plasmonic Mach-Zehnder modulator enabling sub-THz microwave photonics |
| title_sort | 500 ghz plasmonic mach zehnder modulator enabling sub thz microwave photonics |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5086868 |
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