Demonstration of >100GHz ultra-high speed glass-polymer optical modulator using dielectric layer

Polymers have long been known to boast extraordinary properties that make them useful in a broad range of applications. Since the German organic scientist Hermann Staudinger demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he called polymers, in the 1920s, they have been used in fields as varied as medicine, technology, retail and manufacturing. Dr Yasufumi Enami forms part of a team of researchers based within the Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagasaki University in Japan. The team has been conducting important research that makes use of a polymer that could revolutionise the speed at which data can be transferred. The findings could usher in the next generation of an ultra-fast information superhighway with all the benefits that such a development would reap.