TITLE

# Broadband Y-branch electro-optic GaAs waveguide interferometer for 1.3 Î¼m

AUTHOR(S)
Buchmann, P.; Kaufmann, H.; Melchior, H.; Guekos, G.
PUB. DATE
March 1985
SOURCE
Applied Physics Letters;3/1/1985, Vol. 46 Issue 5, p462
SOURCE TYPE
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Electro-optic Machâ€“Zehnder rib waveguide interferometers with low loss Y branches and Schottky barrier electrodes have been fabricated in n-/n+-GaAs by reactive ion etching. With antireflection coating and optimized Y branches device losses of the interferometers at 1.3 Î¼m were as low as 4 dB. In a push-pull configuration drive voltages of only 13 V suffice to attain a modulation depth of 12.7 dB. The optical signal bandwidth of these interferometers was measured to exceed 4.5 GHz.
ACCESSION #
9817227

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