Reduced‐confinement antennas for GaAlAs integrated optical waveguides
作者:
D. E. Bossi,
W. D. Goodhue,
M. C. Finn,
K. Rauschenbach,
J. W. Bales,
R. H. Rediker,
期刊:
Applied Physics Letters
(AIP Available online 1990)
卷期:
Volume 56,
issue 5
页码: 420-422
ISSN:0003-6951
年代: 1990
DOI:10.1063/1.102776
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Monolithically integrated reduced‐confinement antennas are shown to produce reductions of >35% in the far‐field beam divergence for radiation emitted from single‐mode GaAlAs slab waveguides, yielding far‐field beams as narrow as 8.2° FWHM along the direction perpendicular to the wafer surface. Reduced confinement of the guided mode near the output endface is achieved using a novel molecular beam epitaxy growth technique to produce a longitudinal variation in the refractive index and thickness of the waveguide film. Unlike present horn antennas, the reduced‐confinement geometry has the distinct advantage of being compatible with two‐dimensional antenna development.
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