Patent ID: 8218914

Claim:
An electro-optic device comprising: an electro-optic substrate including one or more optical waveguides for propagating one or more optical signals; and three or more radio-frequency (RF) signal electrodes, supported by the electro-optic substrate, for propagating three or more RF signals to modulate the one or more optical signals through electro-optic interaction, each RF-signal electrode including: an input segment for receiving an RF signal; an interaction segment, following the input segment in an RF-signal transit direction, for producing an electric field in at least one of the one or more optical waveguides in response to the RF signal; and an output segment, following the interaction segment in the RF-signal transit direction, for transmitting the RF signal; wherein the input segments of the three or more RF-signal electrodes are arranged in a fractal pattern followed in the RF-signal transit direction by a parallel-bend pattern.