Digitale Medien
[S.l.]
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American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Applied Physics
67 (1990), S. 6998-7005
ISSN:
1089-7550
Quelle:
AIP Digital Archive
Thema:
Physik
Notizen:
This work aims at a systematic study of phase modulation in GaAs/AlGaAs double-heterostructure waveguides with different doping profiles. Both theoretical (part I) and experimental (part II) aspects are investigated, leading to interesting new results. Phase modulation is the sum of a linear electro-optic term, a quadratic electro-optic term, and a free-carrier term. The carrier term is shown to be the sum of a plasma term, an intervalence-band term (for holes only), a band-filling term, and a band-shrinkage term, the latter being due to many-body effects. A new analytic expression for the band-filling term is derived which shows that the band-filling effect does not depend on the carrier effective mass. We prove that the band-shrinkage term is approximately half of the band-filling term, but has opposite sign. The phase modulation is computed using an overlap integral between the optical intensity and the local refractive-index difference. We also report an analytic expression for the modulation efficiency of a p-i-n junction double-heterostructure modulator. This expression is very accurate and only requires knowledge of the depletion width and the guiding parameters.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.345045
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