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Strain is used to tailor the absorption edge of thick (100 Å) quantum wells. This allows efficient modulation at 1.55 μm. An extinction ratio of 18 dB has been achieved by applying a reverse bias of 6 V to a 160 μm long waveguide device.
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Bigan et al. (1990) studied this question.
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