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Plastic Electro-Optic Modulators Show Potential

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Kevin Robinson

Although the need for modulation at terahertz rates for telecommunications may be years away, researchers at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., are working on plastic electro-optic modulators to do just that. Recently, Mark Lee and his colleagues tested a polymer modulator at rates of approximately 150 GHz. A practical device is still a distant dream, but the work demonstrates the potential use of polymers for high-speed electro-optics. Electro-optic modulators encode data into an optical signal for transmission over fiber optic cable, so long-term increases in bandwidth...Read full article

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    Published: January 2003
    Communicationshigh-speed electro-opticsOpticsplastic electro-optic modulatorspolymer modulatorResearch & TechnologyTech Pulse

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