title: Bandwidth-length trade-off figures of merit for electro-optic traveling wave modulators.
abstract: Closed-form expressions explicitly relating modulation bandwidth and active length in electro-optic traveling wave modulators are presented which fully account for skin-effect electrode loss and optical-electrical wave velocities mismatch. Four operative margins have been identified where the bandwidth-length trade-off figure of merit takes simple forms.
authors: Signal Theory and Communications Department, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord UPC, Barcelona 08034, Spain. ibarra@tsc.upc.edu
authors: Jose A
authors: JA
authors: Ibarra Fuste
authors: Maria C
authors: MC
authors: Santos Blanco