Photonic integrated circuits fabricated using quantum well intermixing

N. Sylvain Charbonneau; Andre Delage; Joan E. Haysom; Fang Yang; Philip J. Poole; Geof C. Aers; Jian Jun He; Emil S. Koteles; Paul Garrett Piva; Todd W. Simpson; Ian V. Mitchell

doi:10.1117/12.321940

17 September 1998 Photonic integrated circuits fabricated using quantum well intermixing

N. Sylvain Charbonneau, Andre Delage, Joan E. Haysom, Fang Yang, Philip J. Poole, Geof C. Aers, Jian Jun He, Emil S. Koteles, Paul Garrett Piva, Todd W. Simpson, Ian V. Mitchell

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Proceedings Volume 3413, Materials Modification by Ion Irradiation; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321940
Event: Lasers and Materials in Industry and Opto-Contact Workshop, 1998, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

A technique, base don quantum well (QW) intermixing, has been developed for the post growth, spatially selective tuning of the QW bandgap in a semiconductor laser structure. High energy ion implantation is used to create a large number of vacancies and interstitials in the device. During high temperature processing, these defects enhance the intermixing of the QW and the barrier materials while being annealed out, producing a blue shift of the QW bandgap. Increases in bandgap energy of greater than 10 nm at 1.55 micrometers in InGaAs/InGaAsP/InP structures can be achieved. Absorption spectroscopy in the waveguide geometry is used to quantify the losses in the structure. Using a simple masking scheme to spatially modify the defect concentration, different regions of a wafer can be blue shifted by different amounts. This allows the integration of many different devices such as lasers, detectors, modulators, amplifiers and waveguides on a single wafer using only a single, post-growth processing step. The performance of both passive and active devices produced using this technique will be described, as well as the practicality of this technique in the production of photonic integrated circuits.

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N. Sylvain Charbonneau, Andre Delage, Joan E. Haysom, Fang Yang, Philip J. Poole, Geof C. Aers, Jian Jun He, Emil S. Koteles, Paul Garrett Piva, Todd W. Simpson, and Ian V. Mitchell "Photonic integrated circuits fabricated using quantum well intermixing", Proc. SPIE 3413, Materials Modification by Ion Irradiation, (17 September 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.321940

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