BaTiO3-SrTiO3 multilayer thin film electro-optic waveguide modulator

Jussi Hiltunen; Dilan Seneviratne; Rong Sun; Michael Stolfi; Harry Tuller; Jyrki Lappalainen; Vilho Lantto

doi:10.1063/1.2404982

BaTiO₃-SrTiO₃ multilayer thin film electro-optic waveguide modulator

Jussi Hiltunen
, Dilan Seneviratne
, Rong Sun
, Michael Stolfi
, Harry Tuller
, Jyrki Lappalainen
, Vilho Lantto

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Oulu

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Abstract

Mach-Zehnder electro-optic waveguide modulators were fabricated based on BaTiO₃ (BTO)-SrTiO₃ (STO) multilayer thin film stacks grown on single crystal MgO substrates by pulsed laser deposition. X-ray diffraction measurements confirmed the formation of a BTO-STO superlattice with periodicity of 11unit cells. Strip-loaded waveguides were formed by patterning a Si_xN_yfilm deposited onto the BTO-STO stack while Al electrodes of 3mm length and 13μm separation were fabricated in the vicinity of the active waveguide arm of the Mach-Zehnder modulator. An effective electro-optic coefficient of 73pm∕V at 1550nm wavelength was determined for the deposited BTO-STO superlattice by measuring the output intensity as a function of applied electric field.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	242904-242906
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	89
Issue number	24
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2404982
Publication status	Published - 2006
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

ferroelectric
waveguide
electro-optic
superlattice

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