• DocumentCode
    3634005
  • Title

    Quantum-confined Stark effect electro-absorption modulators for CMOS compatible photonics

  • Author

    L. Lever;Z. Ikonić;R. W. Kelsall

  • Author_Institution
    Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    169
  • Lastpage
    171
  • Abstract
    A design for a quantum-confined Stark effect electro-absorption modulator is described. We use kmiddotp and effective-mass modelling methods to optimise the quantum well dimensions, and employ strain engineering to target 1.3-mum light.
  • Keywords
    "Stark effect","Optical modulation","Absorption","Charge carrier processes","Quantum well devices","Microwave photonics","Power engineering and energy","Stationary state","Deformable models","Optimization methods"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics, 2009. GFP ´09. 6th IEEE International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4402-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1949-209X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2009.5338326
  • Filename
    5338326