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Raman Microprobe Spectroscopy and Photon Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy: Applications to Optical Waveguides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Howard E. Jackson
Howard E. Jackson*
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Department of Physics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221–0011
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Abstract

Recent results from our laboratory on the characterization of optical waveguides are reviewed. In particular, two means of experimental characterization that provide spatially local information are presented. Raman microprobe spectroscopy is used to explore the role of stress in a GaAlAs channel waveguide and to characterize the nature of impurity induced compositional mixing in a multiple quantum well structure suitable for optical waveguiding. Finally, photon tunneling microscopy is shown to probe the optical waveguide evanescent field and thus the local surface and index variations in an optical waveguide.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 240: Symposium E – Advanced III-V Compound Semiconductor Growth, Processing and Devices , 1991 , 673
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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