1.55-μm ridge DFB laser and electroabsorption Modulator integrated with buried-ridge-stripe dual-waveguide spot-size converter output

A 1.55-μm ridge distributed feedback laser and electroabsorption modulator monolithically integrated with a buried-ridge-stripe dual-waveguide spot-size converter (SSC) at the output port for low-loss coupling to a cleaved single-mode optical fiber was fabricated by means of selective area growth, quantum-well intermixing, and dual-core technologies. These devices exhibit threshold current of 28 mA, 3-dB modulation bandwidth of 12.0 GHz, modulator extinction ratios of 25.0-dB dc. The output beam divergence angles of the SSC in the horizontal and vertical directions are as small as 8.0/spl deg/×12.6/spl deg/, respectively, resulting in 3.2-dB coupling loss with a cleaved single-mode optical fiber.