Time stretching of 102-GHz millimeter waves using novel 1.55 μm polymer electrooptic modulator

Millimeter (MM)-wave signals at frequencies up to 102 GHz have been time stretched down to 11 GHz using a new wide-band traveling-wave polymer modulator. This is the first application of electrooptic modulators fabricated using the new polymer material PC-CLD, which has demonstrated good optical loss and high nonlinearity at 1.55 μm.