Effect of electrode gap variation on high speed traveling wave electro-optic modulators

Author

Spickermann, Ralph ; Sakamoto, Steve ; Peters, Matthew G. ; Dagli, Nadir

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1995

fDate

30-31 Oct 1995

Firstpage

120

Abstract

Summary form only given. We report our results on GaAs-AlGaAs traveling wave Mach-Zehnder electro optical modulators. We measured the phase velocity, matched modulators with electrode μm gaps. This paper discusses the effect of this gap variation on modulator characteristics

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; coplanar waveguides; electro-optical modulation; electro-optical switches; electrodes; gallium arsenide; optical planar waveguides; optical waveguide components; GaAs-AlGaAs; GaAs-AlGaAs traveling wave Mach-Zehnder electro optical modulators; electrode μm gaps; electrode gap variation; gap variation; high speed traveling wave electro-optic modulators; matched modulators; modulator characteristics; phase velocity; Bandwidth; Electrodes; Electrooptic modulators; Frequency; Gallium arsenide; High speed optical techniques; Microwave devices; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Phase shifting interferometry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2450-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1995.484536

Filename

484536