Experimental study of efficiency-bandwidth tradeoff of electroabsorption waveguide modulators for microwave photonic links

Author

Loi, K.K. ; Mei, X.B. ; Hondiak, J.H. ; Cheng, A.N. ; Shen, L. ; Wieder, H.H. ; Tu, C.W. ; Chang, W.S.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

10-13 Nov 1997

Firstpage

142

Abstract

We have investigated the dependence of the slope efficiency of InAsP-GaInP strain-compensated 1.3 μm MQW electroabsorption waveguide modulators on the device length. The tradeoff between efficiency and bandwidth distinctly favors electroabsorption modulators over lithium niobate modulators

Keywords

electro-optical modulation; electroabsorption; gallium compounds; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical waveguides; 1.3 mum; InAsP-GaInP; InAsP-GaInP strain-compensated 1.3 μm MQW electroabsorption waveguide modulators; bandwidth; device length; efficiency-bandwidth tradeoff; electroabsorption waveguide modulators; microwave photonic links; slope efficiency; Electrooptic modulators; Electrooptical waveguides; Equations; Length measurement; Optical modulation; Optical waveguide theory; Optical waveguides; Quantum well devices; Radio frequency; Wavelength measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1997. LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting. Conference Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3895-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1997.630559

Filename

630559