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Recent Advances in Magnetostatic Waves-Based Integrated Magnetooptic Bragg Cell Modulators in Yig-Ggg Waveguides*†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Chen S. Tsai
Chen S. Tsai*
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Surface and Interface Sciences University of California, Irvine, CA 92697
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Abstract

The most recent advances in the integration architecture and diffraction efficiency of magnetostatic wave (MSW)-based guided-wave magnetooptic (MO) Bragg cell modulators in yttrium iron garnet-gadolinium gallium garnet (YIG-GGG) waveguides are reported. A curved ion-milled hybrid waveguide lens pair has been integrated with a MO Bragg cell modulator in a taper waveguide with dimensions of 6.0x16.0mm2 to facilitate the collimation and focusing functions. An enhancement in the Bragg diffraction efficiency by two-to six-fold has been accomplished using a non-uniform bias magnetic field. An oscillator-based MO Bragg cell modulator has also been constructed and has provided a Bragg diffraction efficiency which is higher by a factor of two to four than that of a conventional delayline-based modulator.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 517: Symposium F – Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for High Power, High Frequency , January 1998 , 525
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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This work was supported by the ONR.

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