We investigate the device physics of novel GaAs waveguide photodetectors with integrated photon multiplication. Such detectors have the potential to achieve simultaneously high saturation power, high speed, high responsivity, and quantum efficiencies above 100%. Our device design vertically combines a bulk photodetector ridge waveguide region with laterally confined quantum wells for amplificat...

This paper discusses design, fabrication, and characterization of a 512 × 512 arrayed waveguide grating router (AWGR) with a channel spacing of 25 GHz. The dimensions of the AWGR is 16 mm × 11 mm and is fabricated on a 250 nm silicon-on-insulator platform. The measured channel crosstalk is approximately −4 dB without any compensation for the phase errors in the arrayed waveguides. The AWGR spec...

The promising concept of waveguide photodetection with integrated amplification is evaluated by self-consistent device simulation. Such integrated amplification detectors have the potential to achieve simultaneously high saturation power, high speed, high responsivity, and quantum efficiencies well above one. Our example design vertically combines a bulk photodetector ridge region with laterall...

An efficient, tunable Long Period Waveguide Grating (LPWG) filter based on a new hybrid sol-gel material is demonstrated. The LPWG exhibits an attenuation of -22 dB and a high temperature sensitivity of ~3.3 nm/ degrees C. At room temperature the device shows an almost polarization independent wavelength. We took the advantage of the UV-curable sol-gel materials and used soft lithography to dem...

Wavelength converters using quasi-phase matched LiNbO3 (QPM-LN) waveguides are recognized as key devices for future wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) systems. These converters provide unique characteristics such as the simultaneous conversion of WDM channels, a large signal bandwidth, and transparency as regards modulation format. In this review, we describe waveguide fabrication using the...

This paper presents the fabrication and characterisation of wet and reactive ion etched ridge waveguide InGaAs/InGaAsP/InP lasers with an operating wavelength of 1.5μm. Characterisation results of InGaAs/InGaAsP/InP lasers are given of two etching methods, namely wet chemical etching and reactive ion etching. Relative advantages and disadvantages of these two methods are also discussed comparat...

Integrated Mach-Zehnder modulators are essential components in optical communication systems and waveguide sensors [1]. For the demands on high-speed and low driving voltage operations, commercially available optical modulators were fabricated with Ti indiffusion (TI) in LiNbO3. As we know, the TI modulators have such advantages of low propagation and small polarization dependent losses. Howeve...

Directional couplers are critical components in photonic integrated circuits used in optical communication systems. The conventional directional couplers with laterally arranged waveguides can not achieve very short coupling lengths due to extreme sensitivity to fabrication variations and limitations to produce uniformly very narrow gap layers.1) Vertical directional couplers, however, can obta...

We present new kind of microwave phase shifters (MPS) based on dispersion of PbS colloidal quantum dots (QDs) in commercially available photoresist SU8 after a ligand exchange process. Ridge PbS-SU8 waveguides are implemented by integration of the nanocomposite in a silicon platform. When these waveguides are pumped at wavelengths below the band-gap of the PbS QDs, a phase shift in an optically...