A single regrowth integration platform for photonic circuits incorporating tunable SGDBR lasers and quantum-well EAMs

Author

Sysak, Matthew N. ; Raring, James W. ; Barton, Jonathon S. ; Dummer, Matthew ; Blumenthal, Daniel J. ; Coldren, Larry A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA

Volume

18

Issue

15

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1630

Lastpage

1632

Abstract

A monolithic integration platform is demonstrated for high functionality photonic circuits that include quantum-well electroabsorption modulators, semiconductor optical amplifiers, and widely tunable lasers. The platform is based on the selective removal of a set of active quantum wells located above an optical waveguide layer. The waveguide layer contains a second set of quantum wells to be used in modulator regions. Fabrication requires only a single blanket InP regrowth

Keywords

distributed Bragg reflector lasers; electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; integrated optics; integrated optoelectronics; laser tuning; quantum well devices; semiconductor growth; semiconductor optical amplifiers; electroabsorption modulators; monolithic integration platform; optical waveguide layer; quantum-well EAM; sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector; semiconductor optical amplifier; tunable SGDBR lasers; Monolithic integrated circuits; Optical modulation; Optical waveguides; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Stimulated emission; Tunable circuits and devices; Waveguide lasers; Electroabsorption modulators (EAMs); monolithic integration; quantum confined stark effect (QCSE); sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SGDBR) laser; semiconductor lasers; semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2006.878153

Filename

1661672