Integrated Optical Transceiver.

Abstract

In previous work for the Air Force on the Three Terminal Qptoelectronic Array program, a technology base was developed for the implementation of monolithic integrated optoelectronic circuits based upon the modulation doped inversion channel interface. In the Integrated Optical Transceiver program, that technology was adapted to the implementation of traveling wave devices that could operate at frequencies up to 100Gb/s. The concepts of a grating coupled vertical cavity laser and a grating coupled resonant cavity detector are introduced and designs were completed and implemented in photomasks. The performance of the second order grating was evaluated and models developed. The insertion of the grating into the vertical cavity waveguide was characterized and the laser performance was analyzed. A new approach to the implementation of the waveguide was developed. The speed of the detector was analyzed as a function of the velocity mismatch. A complete set of photomasks (14 levels) was developed including traveling wave devices, O/E test circuits and a variety of diagnostic test chips. The devices implemented include FET circuits-CCDs, switch based O/E interface circuits, HFET and DOES lasers as vertical emitters, directional couplers, and heterodyne laser sources.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA341600

Entities

People

  • Geoffrey W. Taylor

Organizations

  • University of Connecticut

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cavity Resonators
  • Detectors
  • Distributed Bragg Reflectors
  • Distributed Feedback Lasers
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Field Effect Transistors
  • High Electron Mobility Transistors
  • Laser Diodes
  • Modules (Electronics)
  • Optoelectronic Devices
  • Power Electronics
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Quantum Wells
  • Semiconductors
  • Standing Waves
  • Transmission Lines
  • Waveguides

Fields of Study

  • Engineering
  • Physics

Readers

  • Integrated Circuit Design and Technology.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems