Low-cost electrothermally tunable optical microcavities based on GaAs

Author

Riemenschneider, F. ; Aziz, M. ; Halbritter, H. ; Sagnes, I. ; Meissner, P.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Technol. Darmstadt, Germany

Volume

14

Issue

11

fYear

2002

Firstpage

1566

Lastpage

1568

Abstract

In this letter, we present a new simple and, therefore, low-cost two-chip concept for the fabrication of electrothermally tunable optical microcavities. Those microcavities will be applicable to tunable components for wavelength-division multiplexing systems, such as tunable filters and tunable lasers. The performance of such a microcavity is demonstrated by fabricating a tunable filter that is based on the proposed concept.

Keywords

electro-optical filters; gallium arsenide; laser tuning; membranes; micro-optics; micromachining; micromechanical resonators; optical communication equipment; optical fabrication; optical tuning; optical waveguide filters; thermo-optical effects; wavelength division multiplexing; GaAs; low-cost electrothermally tunable optical microcavities; optical fabrication; tunable components; tunable filter; tunable filters; tunable lasers; two-chip concept; wavelength-division multiplexing systems; Biomembranes; Electrothermal effects; Gallium arsenide; Microcavities; Mirrors; Optical filters; Optical resonators; Tunable circuits and devices; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2002.803371

Filename

1042004