Abstract

There has been considerable progress made in the demonstration of guided wave devices which use electro-optic polymers as the active layer^{[1,2,3,4,5,6]}. Recently a multilevel polymer waveguide system with an intensity modulator in the top level has been reported ^[7]. Reported here is a demonstration of a registered multilevel Mach-Zehnder intensity modulator array, including two independent modulator levels vertically aligned . This demonstration establishes the feasibility of using polymer materials to fabricate multilevel active structures not possible in other materials such as LiNbO₃.

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