Modeling and design of GaAs traveling-wave electrooptic modulators based on capacitively loaded coplanar strips

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 544-554

  Cui, Yansong ^b   Berini, Pierre ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Capacitively loaded coplanar strips; GaAs traveling wave electrooptic modulator; Slow wave structure; Velocity matched

Indexed keywords

COPLANAR STRIPS (CPSS); GAAS TRAVELING WAVE ELECTROOPTIC (EO) MODULATORS; MODULATOR ARCHITECTURE; SLOW WAVE STRUCTURE;

BANDWIDTH; CAPACITANCE; DESIGN; GALLIUM COMPOUNDS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33846478060     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2005.859851     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. 3 intensity modulator," Electron. Lett., vol. 28, no. 9, pp. 826-827, Apr. 1992.
2. 3 optical modulators," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 615-619, Apr. 1998.
3. 3," J. Lightw. Tcchnol., vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 843-847, May 1999.
4. 3 optical modulator with low driving voltage," presented at the Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), pp. 206-207, San Jose, CA, 1996, Paper ThB3.
5. 3 modulator," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 805-806, Jun. 1998.
6. J. B. Khurgin and J. U. Kang, "Ultrabroad-bandwidth electro-optic modulator based on a cascaded Bragg grating," Opt. Lett., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 70-72, Jan. 2000.
7. K. Wakita, K. Yoshino, I. Kotaka, S. Kondo, and Y. Noguehi, "Blue chirp electroabsorption modulators with very thick quantum wells," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 1169-1171, Sep. 1996.
8. S. Irmscher, R. Lewen, and U. Eriksson, "InP-InGaAsP high-speed traveling wave electroabsorption modulators with integrated termination resistors," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 923-925, Jul. 2002.
9. R. Spickermann, S. R. Sakamoto, M. G. Peters, and N. Dagli, "GaAs/AlGaAs traveling wave electrooptic modulator with electrical bandwidth greater than 40 GHz," Electron. Lett., vol. 32, no. 12, pp. 1095-1096, Jun. 6, 1996.
10. R. G. Walker, "Electrooptic modulation at mm-wave frequencies in GaAs/AlGaAs guided wave devices," in Proc. IEEE/LEOS 8th Annu. Meeting, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 1995, pp. 118-119.
11. S. R. Sakamoto, C. Ozturk, Y. T. Byun, J. Ko, and N. Dagli, "Low loss substrate-removed (SURE) optical waveguides in GaAs/AlGaAs epitaxial layers embedded in organic polymers," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 985-987, Jul. 1998.
12. Y. Cui, "GaAs-based traveling wave electro-optic modulators," M.S. thesis, School of Information Technology and Engineering, Univ. Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2004.
13. R. G. Walker, "High-speed III-V semiconductor intensity modulators," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 654-667, Mar. 1991.
14. _, "High-speed electrooptic modulation in GaAs/GaAlAs waveguide devices," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. LT-5, no. 10, pp. 1444-1453, Oct. 1987.
15. R. E. Collin, Foundations for Microwave Engineering. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
16. Sonnet User's Manual, Sonnet Software, Inc., Liverpool, NY.
17. 3 using FEM and numerical optimization technique," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 22, no. 2, pp. 526-533, Feb. 2004.
18. S. Y. Wang and S. H. Lin, "High speed III-V electrooptic waveguide modulators at Λ = 1.3 μm," J. Lightw. Technol., vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 758-771, Jun. 1988.