DocumentCode
1182687
Title
Fabrication of electroabsorption optical modulators using laser disordered GaInAs/GaInAsP multiquantum well structures
Author
Lullo, G. ; McKee, Adam ; Bryce, A.C. ; Button, C. ; Marsh, John H.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Glasgow Univ.
Volume
30
Issue
19
fYear
1994
fDate
9/15/1994 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1623
Lastpage
1625
Abstract
Electroabsorption optical modulators have been fabricated on GaInAs/GaInAsP multiquantum well structures whose bandgap had been increased by laser photoabsorption-induced disordering. Modulation depths of 20 dB have been obtained in material which has been bandgap blue shifted by as much as 120 nm, while samples shifted by 80 nm gave depths as high as 27 dB
Keywords
III-V semiconductors; electro-optical devices; electroabsorption; energy gap; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; optical modulation; optical workshop techniques; semiconductor quantum wells; GaInAs-GaInAsP; GaInAs/GaInAsP multiquantum well structures; bandgap blue shift; electroabsorption optical modulators; fabrication; laser photoabsorption-induced disordering; modulation depths;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/el:19941086
Filename
326347
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