EXTREMELY LOW-VOLTAGE FABRY-PEROT REFLECTION MODULATORS

被引:50
作者
YAN, RH
SIMES, RJ
COLDREN, LA
机构
[1] Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
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10.1109/68.47066
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
We report a normally-on electroabsorptive surface-normal Fabry-Perot reflection modulator with a reflection change of 47% for an operating voltage swing of only 2 V, i.e., 23%/V which is the highest efficiency ever reported. The structure has an active region of twenty-four 100 Å GaAs/100 Å Al0.2Ga0.8As multiple quantum wells, sandwiched between two quarter-wavelength grating mirrors, the bottom one of which is more reflective. The wavelength range over which more than half of the maximum reflection change is observed extends as wide as ~ 7 nm for 2 V. © 1990 IEEE
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页码:118 / 119
页数:2
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