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Rajeev J. Ram. Cho, Seong-Ho, 1966- Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2006-03-24T18:18:10Z 2006-03-24T18:18:10Z 2003 2004 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/30086 55667379 Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, February 2004. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 149-158). This thesis describes the development of advanced laser resonators and applications of laser-induced micromachining for photonic circuit fabrication. Two major advantages of laser-induced micromachining are direct patterning and writing on large areas of substrates at high speed following the exposure of laser light, without using complicated photomask steps. For passive photonic devices fabrication, a novel femtosecond laser with unprecedented low repetition rates of 4 MHz is demonstrated to generate high intensity pulses, as high as 1.25 MW with 100 nJ pulse energies and 80 fs pulse durations directly from this laser resonator, without using any active devices or amplifiers. These high intensity pulses are applied to transparent glass materials to demonstrate micromachining of waveguides, gratings, couplers, and three dimensional waveguides and their beam couplings. Active and passive semiconductor devices can be monolithically integrated by employing high energy laser pulses to locally disorder quantum well regions. The 45 nm bandgap shifts at 1.55 ptm with a standard Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 535 nm are realized. Finally, unidirectional semiconductor ring lasers for high-density integration are developed as a potential application to photonic integrated circuits. Hybrid semiconductor S-crossover and retro-reflected ring lasers, as prototypes for unidirectional operation, are built and result in up to 21.5 dB and 24.5 dB of counter-mode suppression ratio, respectively, which is in good agreement with theoretical predictions. by Seong-Ho Cho. Ph.D. 158 leaves 6628779 bytes 6628588 bytes application/pdf application/pdf eng Massachusetts Institute of Technology M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Laser micromachining of active and passive photonic integrated circuits Thesis application/pdf Publication unknown unknown <Publication xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/1.1/" id="206bf167-627d-4120-9b1f-88b66e320fd6"> <Type xmlns="https://www.openaire.eu/cerif-profile/vocab/COAR_Publication_Types">http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843</Type> <Language>eng</Language> <Title>Laser micromachining of active and passive photonic integrated circuits</Title> <PublishedIn> <Publication> </Publication> </PublishedIn> <PublicationDate>2004</PublicationDate> <Authors> <Author> <DisplayName>Cho, Seong-Ho, 1966-</DisplayName> <Affiliation> <OrgUnit> </OrgUnit> </Affiliation> </Author> </Authors> <Editors> </Editors> <Publishers> <Publisher> <DisplayName>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DisplayName> <OrgUnit /> </Publisher> </Publishers> <License>http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582</License> <Keyword>Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.</Keyword> <Abstract>This thesis describes the development of advanced laser resonators and applications of laser-induced micromachining for photonic circuit fabrication. Two major advantages of laser-induced micromachining are direct patterning and writing on large areas of substrates at high speed following the exposure of laser light, without using complicated photomask steps. For passive photonic devices fabrication, a novel femtosecond laser with unprecedented low repetition rates of 4 MHz is demonstrated to generate high intensity pulses, as high as 1.25 MW with 100 nJ pulse energies and 80 fs pulse durations directly from this laser resonator, without using any active devices or amplifiers. These high intensity pulses are applied to transparent glass materials to demonstrate micromachining of waveguides, gratings, couplers, and three dimensional waveguides and their beam couplings. Active and passive semiconductor devices can be monolithically integrated by employing high energy laser pulses to locally disorder quantum well regions. The 45 nm bandgap shifts at 1.55 ptm with a standard Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at 535 nm are realized. Finally, unidirectional semiconductor ring lasers for high-density integration are developed as a potential application to photonic integrated circuits. Hybrid semiconductor S-crossover and retro-reflected ring lasers, as prototypes for unidirectional operation, are built and result in up to 21.5 dB and 24.5 dB of counter-mode suppression ratio, respectively, which is in good agreement with theoretical predictions.</Abstract> <Access xmlns="http://purl.org/coar/access_right" > </Access> </Publication>