On module level, we offer a packaged MZM. On chip level, or pigtailed, we offer a large palette of modulator types: Phase modulators, im-/balanced MZM and IQ modulators. Feel free to contact us for specific ideas.
What products do you offer?
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Our modulators are designed, fabricated, assembled and tested in Switzerland.
Where are your modulators fabricated?
The POH platform combines advantages from organic NLO materials and plasmonic slot waveguides. This means, our modulators offer linear phase modulation, ultrafast speed, high nonlinearities, subdiffraction confinement of light, enhanced light-matter interaction leading to voltage-length products one order of magnitude smaller than photonics, small RC time constants, and reduced plasmonic losses.
What advantage is your product offering compared to established technologies?
Our modulators are based on the plasmonic-organic-hybrid (POH) platform. This combines plasmonic wave guiding with organic second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) materials. In plasmonics, light is guided as a surface plasmon polariton (SPP) at metal-insulator interfaces. This enables light confinement well below the diffraction limit, which results in an enhanced light-matter interaction.
What technology enables your improved performance?
The plasmonic propagation losses make up slightly more than half of the total losses.
How much of the fiber-to-fiber losses comes from the plasmonic propagation losses?
Depending on what application you are aiming for, the fiber-to-fiber losses are in the range between 11 dB and 18 dB. Should you require lower insertion losses, our development team is happy to tailor a solution for you.
What fiber-to-fiber losses can be expected?
Our packaged Mach-Zender Modulators offer a 3-dB bandwidth of over 110 GHz. Our chip level modulators have shown a record high 3-dB frequency response up to 500 GHz.
What is the bandwidth limitation of your products?
This depends on the application and can go as high as 10 dBm.
What is the maximum optical input power?
