Title :
Effect of electrode gap variation on high speed traveling wave electro-optic modulators
Author :
Spickermann, Ralph ; Sakamoto, Steve ; Peters, Matthew G. ; Dagli, Nadir
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. We report our results on GaAs-AlGaAs traveling wave Mach-Zehnder electro optical modulators. We measured the phase velocity, matched modulators with electrode μm gaps. This paper discusses the effect of this gap variation on modulator characteristics
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; coplanar waveguides; electro-optical modulation; electro-optical switches; electrodes; gallium arsenide; optical planar waveguides; optical waveguide components; GaAs-AlGaAs; GaAs-AlGaAs traveling wave Mach-Zehnder electro optical modulators; electrode μm gaps; electrode gap variation; gap variation; high speed traveling wave electro-optic modulators; matched modulators; modulator characteristics; phase velocity; Bandwidth; Electrodes; Electrooptic modulators; Frequency; Gallium arsenide; High speed optical techniques; Microwave devices; Optical interferometry; Optical modulation; Phase shifting interferometry;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1995. 8th Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, Volume 1., IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2450-1
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1995.484536
