Acoustooptic resonance in deep-etched GaAs-AlGaAs electrooptic modulators

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1598-1603

  Watson, Christopher D ^a   Poirier, Maxime ^a   Heaton, John M ^b,c,d   Lewis, Meirion ^e   Boudreau, Marcel ^a  

^a Bookham Technology   (Canada)

^b IEEE

^c OSA ^*  (United States)

^d Filtronic Compd Semiconductors   (United Kingdom)

^e QINETIQ   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; CIRCUIT RESONANCE; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PIEZOELECTRICITY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TENSORS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

ACOUSTOOPTIC RESONANCE; ELASTOOPTIC; ELECTROOPTIC MODULATORS; WAVEGUIDE MODULATORS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 3142750606     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2004.829221     Document Type: Article

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