933 Rhodes Hall
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0030
513/556-4799
Director: Dr. Joseph T. Boyd
513/556-4788
Capabilities exist in our laboratory for coupling light into optical waveguides and measurement of waveguide propagation losses. Facilities are available for rapid thermal annealing(RTA), ion and proton exchange, and for cleaving and polishing semiconduc tor materials. A computerized ellipsometer, scanning photometric microscope, and a differetial interference microscope are available for optical characterization.
The adjacent MicroElectronics Laboratory provides complete facilities for device fabrication including photolithography equipment, electron beam deposition, and reactive ion etching(RIE). We also operate and maintain a low pressure chemical vapor deposit ion(LPCVD) unit which is used to deposit waveguide materials and capping and insulating layers.
Photoluminescence and Raman microprobe facilities exist in a collaborating laboratory, the Laser Light Scattering Characterization Laboratory in the Department of Physics
Ring Resonator Photo
Argon Ion Laser
Waveguide Attenuation Plot
Our laboratory is currently comprised of several graduate students pursuing M.S. and Ph.D. degrees on a variety of topics.
To find out more about these individual topics, as well as some recent publications of the Optolab, click on one of the
topics below.
OPTICAL SENSORS
GaAlAs/GaAs QUANTUM STRUCTURES
NSOM CHARACTERIZATION OF OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES AND VCSELS
MODE FIELD ANALYSIS AND BENDING LOSSES IN
WAVEGUIDES
RECENT PUBLICATIONS OF THE OPTOLAB
