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We propose and demonstrate a new low loss Ti:LiNbO3 waveguide electro-optic polarization controller for λ=1.32 μm. The device provides general polarization transformations, is wavelength tunable, and has a total fiber device fiber insertion loss of 2.2 dB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report a novel wavelength selective coupler based upon grating-assisted forward coupling between two, nonidentical, vertically stacked InGaAsP/InP waveguides. Using a 14.4 μm period to provide phase matching between the asynchronous waveguides, we achieve a filter bandwidth (full width at half maximum) of 65 Å and coupling efficiency of ∼65% with a device length of only 1.0 mm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report an electro-optically tunable, single-frequency extended cavity laser with a linewidth of less than 60 kHz. The laser consists of a 1.5-μm InGaAsP gain medium and an electro-optically tunable, narrow-band Ti:LiNbO3 wavelength filter (Δλ≊12 Å). Electro-optic tuning over at least 70 Å and single-frequency operation with output power of more than 1 mW have been demonstrated. The laser linewidth was measured by beating the laser against a 1.523-μm HeNe laser. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We have made InGaP/InP waveguides on InP substrates by atmospheric pressure metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy. The introduction of Ga in the cladding layers causes a large relative index change (Δn=0 to >0.18) that can be varied with the Ga concentration (Δn=0.18 with Ga at 5×1019 cm-3), creating strong, low loss (∼1.25 dB/cm) waveguides. In addition some of these structures were doped with Fe, using ferrocene as the Fe doping source. Typical resistivities of 107 Ω cm have been achieved at Fe concentrations of 5×1017 cm-3, allowing electric fields in excess of 10 000 V/cm to be applied to the waveguides. InGaP/InP Fe-doped waveguides should prove extremely useful in fabricating switches, modulators, couplers, and filters for integrated optics devices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report the first demonstration of efficient narrowband optical wavelength filters using InGaAsP/InP passive waveguide grating resonators. Filter bandwidths as narrow as 1 Å, centered about λ=1.55 μm with excess resonator loss as low as 1 dB, have been achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report the first demonstration of InGaAsP/InP passive waveguide reflection grating filters. Waveguide filters with ∼1.5-μm center wavelength, peak reflectivity >99%, and spectral bandwidths (full width at half-maximum) as narrow as 6 Å and as broad as 130 Å have been achieved. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose and demonstrate the first Ti:LiNbO3 waveguide-InGaAsP/InP composite cavity laser. Mode locked optical pulses shorter than 22 ps have been generated at repetition rates up to 7.2 GHz by sinusoidally driving the integrated traveling-wave directional coupler switch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]