The exceptional electro-optic properties of poled polymer films, coupled
with the power and flexibility of thin film fabrication and
photolithographic processing, may make possible a new class of integrated
optic systems combining the processing power of VLSI with a dense, high
bandwidth, photonic interconnection and switching network. We report on the
recent development and initial test results of two electro-optic polymer
based integrated optic devices for optical interconnection applications. The
first is an optical railtap for the distribution of many different optical
signals from a single CW laser diode, and the second is a traveling wave
Mach-Zehnder integrated optic modulator, which was modulated at frequencies
up to 20 GHz.