Now I am studying about the behavior of the Q-factor in the resonant circuit because the Q-factor of the circuit directly determine the performance as the EOM driver.
Here I summarize the fundamental which explains why Q-factor is important.
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The EOM driver circuit can be approximately described as shown in figure below

Z represents the impedance of a resonant circuit.
In an ideal case, the transformer just raise the voltage level n-times larger. Rin is the output impedance of the signal source and usually has 50[Ohm].
The transformer also makes the impedance Z 1/n^2 smaller. Therefore this configuration gives a following relation between Vin and Vout.

Where G is the gain for the voltage. And G goes to a maximum value when Rin=Z/n2. This relation is shown clearly in the following plot.

Note that I put Rin=50 [Ohm] for calculating the plot.
Under the condition Rin=Z/n2( generally referred as impedance matching ), the maximum gain can be expressed as;

It means that larger Z makes more efficient gain. In our case, interested Z is considered as the impedance at a resonance.
So what we should do is making a resonant circuit which has a higher impedance at the resonance (e.g. high Q-resonant circuit).
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