The design of electroabsorption modulators with negative chirp and very low insertion loss

Electroabsorption modulators(EAMs) with negative chirp and very low insertion loss are numerically designed with asymmetric intra-step-barrier coupled double strained quantum wells(AICD-SQWs) based on InGaAlAs material.For this purpose,the electroabsorption coefficient is calculated over a range of...

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Published in半导体学报 Vol. 33; no. 6; pp. 14 - 19
Main Author Kambiz Abedi
Format Journal Article
LanguageChinese
Published 2012
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ISSN1674-4926

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Summary:Electroabsorption modulators(EAMs) with negative chirp and very low insertion loss are numerically designed with asymmetric intra-step-barrier coupled double strained quantum wells(AICD-SQWs) based on InGaAlAs material.For this purpose,the electroabsorption coefficient is calculated over a range of wells layer strain from compressive(CS) to tensile(TS).The chirp parameter and insertion loss for TE input light polarization are evaluated from the calculated electroabsorption spectra,and their Kramers-Kronig transformed refractive index changes.The results of the numerical simulation show that the best range of left and right wells strain for EAMs based on AICD-SQWs with negative chirp and very low insertion loss are from 0.032%to 0.05%(TS) and-0.52% to-0.50%(CS),respectively.
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Electroabsorption modulators(EAMs) with negative chirp and very low insertion loss are numerically designed with asymmetric intra-step-barrier coupled double strained quantum wells(AICD-SQWs) based on InGaAlAs material.For this purpose,the electroabsorption coefficient is calculated over a range of wells layer strain from compressive(CS) to tensile(TS).The chirp parameter and insertion loss for TE input light polarization are evaluated from the calculated electroabsorption spectra,and their Kramers-Kronig transformed refractive index changes.The results of the numerical simulation show that the best range of left and right wells strain for EAMs based on AICD-SQWs with negative chirp and very low insertion loss are from 0.032%to 0.05%(TS) and-0.52% to-0.50%(CS),respectively.
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ISSN:1674-4926