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AlGaAs/GaAs Double-Heterostructure Optical Waveguide on SiSubstrates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 February 2011

T. Yuasa
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466, Japan.
M. Umeno
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466, Japan.
S. Sakai
Affiliation:
Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Tokushima University, Minami-josanjima, Tokushima 770, Japan.
N. Wada
Affiliation:
on leave from Mastushita Kotobuki Electronic Industries Ltd.
Y. Ueta
Affiliation:
Department of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Tokushima University, Minami-josanjima, Tokushima 770, Japan.
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Abstract

AlGaAs/GaAs double-heterostructure (DH) optical waveguides on Si substrateswhich is important in future opto-electric integrated circuits (OEICs)utilizing both Si and GaAs devices is analyzed by the effective index methodand fabricated by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD).

The structures contain 0.8-μm-thick GaAs guiding layer sandwiched betweentwo 1-μm-thick Al0.1Ga0.9 As cladding layers. All thelayers were grown by MOCVD on (100) 2°-off Si substrates by two step method.A top cladding layer was etched leaving 2-μm wide mesa-stripes. The etcheddepth was changed from 0.65 to 0.90 μm. The field profiles were calculatedand measured for 1.3 μm wavelength light. The measured and calculatedprofiles agree quite well with each other for all the. waveguides havingdifferent mesa height. This agreement makes us possible to design morecomplicated AlGaAs/GaAs waveguides and modulators on Si substrates.

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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