Lightwave transmission of multiple television signals using an organic polymer electro-optic phase modulator

Barton A. Smith; Mark C. Jurich; William E. Moerner; Willi Volksen; Margaret E. Best; William W. Fleming; Jerome D. Swalen; Gary C. Bjorklund

doi:10.1117/12.165289

16 December 1993 Lightwave transmission of multiple television signals using an organic polymer electro-optic phase modulator

Barton A. Smith, Mark C. Jurich, William E. Moerner, Willi Volksen, Margaret E. Best, William W. Fleming, Jerome D. Swalen, Gary C. Bjorklund

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Proceedings Volume 2025, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials VI; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.165289
Event: SPIE's 1993 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1993, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

Phase modulation and optical heterodyne detection were used to transmit and receive six cable television signals at 832 nm using a new polymeric electro-optic material. The electro-optic slab waveguide layer of the phase modulator consisted of a spin-coated, amorphous polyimide film doped with a nonlinear chromophore which had been poled in an electric field. The cladding layers, which confined the optical field within the waveguide, were composed of a photo-crosslinked acrylic polymer. Our television transmission system serves as a stringent test of the utility of the electro-optic polymer for lightwave data transmission.

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Barton A. Smith, Mark C. Jurich, William E. Moerner, Willi Volksen, Margaret E. Best, William W. Fleming, Jerome D. Swalen, and Gary C. Bjorklund "Lightwave transmission of multiple television signals using an organic polymer electro-optic phase modulator", Proc. SPIE 2025, Nonlinear Optical Properties of Organic Materials VI, (16 December 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.165289

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