GaAs/AlGaAs travelling wave electro-optic modulator with an electrical bandwidth >40GHz

Electronics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1095-1096

  Spickermann, R ^a   Sakamoto, S R ^a   Peters, M G ^a   Dagli, N ^a  

^a University of California at Santa Barbara   (United States)

Author keywords

Electro optic modulators; Optical modulation

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ELECTRIC LOSSES; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTRODES; ELECTRON DEVICE MANUFACTURE; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; IMPEDANCE MATCHING (ELECTRIC); LIGHT MODULATION; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

ELECTRICAL BANDWIDTH MEASUREMENT; MICROWAVE LOSS; SLOW WAVE ELECTRODES; TRAVELLING WAVE ELECTROOPTIC MODULATOR; VELOCITY MATCHING;

LIGHT MODULATORS;

EID: 0030572224     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19960745     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. WALKER, R.G.: 'High speed III-V electro-optic waveguide modulators', IEEE J. Quantum Electron., 1991, 27, pp. 654-667
2. 3 optical modulator with ridge structure'. Electron. Lett., 1994, 30, (12), pp. 949-951
3. SPICKERMANN, R., DAGLI, N., and PETERS, M.G.: 'GaAs/AlGaAs electro-optic modulator with bandwidth >40GHz', Electron. Lett., 1995, 31, (11), pp. 915-917
4. SPICKERMANN, R., and DAGLI, N.: 'Experimental analysis of millimeter wave coplanar waveguide slow wave structures on GaAs', IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., 1994, 42, pp. 1918-1924
5. SAKAMOTO, S.R., SPICKERMANN, R., and DAGLI, N.: 'Narrow gap coplanar slow wave electrode for travelling wave electro-optic modulators', Electron. Lett., 1995, 31, (14), pp. 1183-1185
6. UEHARA, S.: 'Calibration of optical modulator frequency response with application to signal level control', Appl. Opt., 1978, 17, (1), pp. 68-71