Design and Characterization of Integrated Photonic Devices Fabricated Using Selective-Area Epitaxy and Distributed Bragg Reflector Surface Gratings

The second challenge involved with the fabricating of integrated photonic devices is the formation of integrable high-Q cavities. The optical feedback in most laser diodes is provided by cleaved facets. Unfortunately, cleaved facets are not an option when designing integrated photonic devices. However, optical feedback can be provided in integrated photonic devices using distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs). In this dissertation, ridge-waveguide DBR lasers with first-order surface gratings are investigated. These lasers exhibit low thresholds (6 mA), high slope efficiencies (0.46 W/A), and single-frequency operation with narrow linewidths ($<$25 kHz). By varying the period of the first-order DBR grating, a wide wavelength range of 540 A (15.2 THz) is obtained with threshold currents and slope efficiencies remaining below 10 mA and above 0.40 W/A, respectively, over the entire wavelength range. These gratings are also used to fabricate DBR lasers with monolithically integrated external cavity electroabsorption (EA) modulators without modification of the active region.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Electrical Engineering

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Lammert, Robert Morand

Contributors dc:contributor

• Coleman, James J.

• Engineering, Materials Science

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9812667

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81214