We report the effect of well profile on the performance of absorptive electro-optic spatial light modulators based on multiquantum well structures. In particular we calculate the variation in exciton oscillator strength and the absorption coefficient at the signal wavelength as a function of applied electric field. For a monochromatic source at 1572 meV, for example, we consider modulators based on square, parabolic, and asymmetric triangular GaAs-AlxGa1−xAs quantum wells and find that at zero field the exciton oscillator strengths are comparable but that superior performance is obtained using asymmetric triangular wells. These conclusions hold even assuming fairly large exciton linewidths in triangular wells.
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