An ultrahigh-speed AlGaAs-GaAs polarization converter using slow-wave coplanar electrodes

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 675-677

  Rahmatian, Farnoosh ^a,b   Jaeger, Nicolas A F ^a,b   James, Robert ^c   Berolo, Ezio ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Radio Science Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

Electrooptic modulation; Integrated optics; Optical fiber communication; Polarization; Slow wave structures

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; INTEGRATED OPTICS; INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SUBSTRATES;

ELECTROOPTIC MODULATION; SLOW WAVE COPLANAR STRIP ELECTRODES;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 0032070627     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.669244     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Z. K. F. Lee and N. A. F. Jaeger, "Electrode structure for microwave to optical wave velocity match in III-V semiconductor electro-optic modulators," in CLEO'92, 1992, pp. 554-555, paper CThS5.
2. N. A. F. Jaeger, F. Rahmatian, H. Kato, R. James, E. Berolo, and Z. K. F. Lee, "Velocity-matched electrodes for compound semiconductor travelling-wave electrooptic modulators: Experimental results," IEEE Microwave Guided Wave Lett., vol. 6, pp. 82-84, Feb. 1996.
3. R. Spickermann, S. R. Sakamoto, M. G. Peters, and N. Dagli, "GaAs/AlGaAs travelling wave electro-optic modulator with an electrical bandwidth >40 GHz," Electron. Lett., vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 1095-1096, June 1996.
4. S. R. Sakamoto, R. Spickermann, and N. Dagli, "Narrow gap coplanar slow wave electrode for travelling wave electro-optic modulators," Electron. Lett., vol. 31, no. 14, pp. 1183-1185, July 1995.
5. R. G. Walker, "High-speed III-V semiconductor intensity modulators," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 27, pp. 654-667, Mar. 1991.
6. R. G. Walker, "High speed semiconductor guided-wave optical modulators," in IEE Colloq., Microwave Opto-Electronics, 1994, no. 022, pp. 1/1-1/6.
7. S. Y. Wang and S. H. Lin, "High speed III-V electrooptic waveguide modulators at λ = 1.3 μm," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 6, pp. 758-771, June 1988.
8. F. Rahmatian, "High-speed guided-wave electro-optic modulators and polarization converters in III-V compound semiconductors," Ph.D. dissertation, Univ. British Columbia, June 1997, pp. 30-73.
9. E. R. Ranalli and G. J. Sonek, "Effects of dispersion and birefringence on performance of quantum well mode converters," J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 10, pp. 227-234, Feb. 1992.
10. M. Schlak, C. M. Weinert, P. Albrecht, and H. P. Nolting, "Tunable TE/TM-mode converter on (001)-InP-substrate," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 3, pp. 15-16, Jan. 1991.
11. R. E. Collin, Foundation for Microwave Engineering, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992, pp. 551-557.