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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in Optical Technologies Volume 2012, Article ID 676785, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2012/676785 Research Article Continuous Operation of a Bragg Diffraction Type Electrooptic Frequency Shifter at 16 GHz with 65% Efficiency Shintaro Hisatake, Kenji Hattori, and Tadao Nagatsuma Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan Correspondence should be addressed to Shintaro Hisatake, hisatake@ee.es.osaka-u.ac.jp Received 15 July 2012; Accepted 22 September 2012 Academic Editor: Borja Vidal Copyright © 2012 Shintaro Hisatake et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We demonstrate for the first time the continuous operation of a Bragg diffraction type electrooptic (EO) frequency shifter using a 16 GHz modulation signal. Because frequency shifting is based on the Bragg diffraction from an EO traveling phase grating (ETPG), this device can operate even in the millimeter-wave (30 GHz) range or higher frequency range. The ETPG is generated based on the interaction between a modulation microwave guided by a microstrip line and a copropagating lightwave guided by a planner waveguide in a domain-engineered LiTaO3 EO crystal. In this work, the modulation power efficiency was improved by a factor of 11 compared with that of bulk devices by thinning the substrate so that the modulation electric field in the optical waveguide was enhanced. A shifting efficiency of 65% was achieved at the modulation power of 3 W. 1. Introduction corresponds toan extra loss of about 5 dB. Because the noise