Multiple-quantum-well (M.Q.W.) and quantum-confined-stark-effect (Q.C.S.E.) have been widely used in designing and fabricating electroabsorption modulators. In this paper, material InAlAs/InGaAlAs near 1500nm transition is used to be our target for designing and fabricating EAM due to its high band-offset ratio (electron to hole) and the strong exciton effect.
A calculation model for quantum well absorption has been developed to design EAM active region. Asymmetrically inserting a thin-spiked potential barrier into wide Q.W. structure, the Q.W. can have high efficiency of Q.C.S.E. without lowing the electron-hole wave function overlap integral, causing high electroabsorption coefficient and optical modulation. Tuning material composition (~-0.4% tensile strain ) is also used for polarization independence characteristics.
Traveling-wave EAM based on InAlAs / InGaAlAs material system is also fabricated and measured. Polarization independence 2~5 dB operation, low voltage swing of 1V for 15 dB extinction ratio, high-speed electrical-to-optical response with ¡V3dB bandwidth of >20GHz at 50£[ termination have been achieved showing high potential in broad band fiber optical communication.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0628105-141347 |
| Date | 28 June 2005 |
| Creators | Li, Jheng-jian |
| Contributors | Wei Lin, San-Liang Li, An-Kuo Chu, Yi-Jen Chiu, Mei-Ying Chang |
| 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-0628105-141347 |
| Rights | not_available, Copyright information available at source archive |
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