Monolithic fabrication of 2 /spl times/ 2 crosspoint switches in InGaAs-InAlGaAs multiple quantum wells using quantum-well intermixing

Bocang Qiu, X.F. Liu, Maolong Ke, H.K. Lee, A.C. Bryce, J. Stewart Aitchison, J.H. Marsh, C. Button

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters · 2001 · 36 citations · 7 references

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Abstract

In this letter, we report the fabrication of 2 /spl times/ 2 crosspoint switches, which monolithically integrate passive waveguides, electro-absorption modulators and optical amplifiers onto one chip using sputtered SiO/sub 2/ quantum-well intermixing technique. The switches have low insertion loss to be about 4-5 dB and extinction ratios up to 26 dB.

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