The work of this thesis includes the growth of TE polarization and polarization insensitive semiconductor optical amplifier structures by molecular beam epitaxy. The former is suited to fabricate the SOA and laser of the emitter, the latter is suited to fabricate the SOA of the repeater and receiver. The materials of InAl(1)As, InGa(1)Al(2)As and InGa(2)As were used to be the cladding layer, SCH layer and quantum well(QW), respectively.
The first kind of our SOA structures is for 1.55-£gm TE polarization. The materials of InGa(1)As and InGa(2)As were used to be QW and sub-well, respectively. The second kind of our SOA structures is for 1.55-£gm polarization insensitive. To get polarization insensitive characteristics we use tensile strained InGa(3)As material and add two very thin compressive strain layers, InGa(1)As, in QWs to be sub-wells to mostly confine hh1 state. It has the effect of reducing red shift on the e1-hh1 transition and help to partially balance the strain in QW before the thickness of the tensile strained InGa(3)As exceeds one half of the critical layer thickness. These two kinds of structures include three QWs with modulation doping. It can reduce transparency current and noise figure and increase the saturation output power of SOA with the n-type modulation doping.
We had successfully grown the polarization insensitive SOA structure for 1.52-£gm. The wavelength of TE polarization SOA structures we grew were at 1.45(µm) and 1.47(µm) and there were somewhat differences between the designed and grown. We can increase the PL efficiency after rapid thermal annealing at 550¢J for 30(s)~45(s).
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0626103-121448 |
| Date | 26 June 2003 |
| Creators | Tsai, Yao-Tsong |
| Contributors | Yi-Jen Chiu, Tao-Yuan Chang, Ching-Ting Lee, Wen-Jeng Ho, Tsong-Sheng Lay |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0626103-121448 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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