Abstract
An optoelectronic attenuator suitable for the optical control of microwave-integrated circuits is presented. High-speed photoconductive switches are embedded in planar microwave transmission lines fabricated on both semi-insulating GaAs and high-resistivity silicon substrates, and a fiber pigtailed semiconductor laser diode is used to control the microwave signal level on these high-speed lines. Forty-five dB of microwave attenuation was demonstrated with a silicon coplanar waveguide-photoconductive switch, while up to 8.5 dB of attenuation was achieved with a GaAs device. In addition, the optically induced phase delay through the silicon device was observed to be as large as 180/spl deg/. The microwave performance of these photoconductive devices has been fully characterized and their suitability for various optical control applications compared. So that one can optimize the laser diode/GaAs photoconductive device interaction, the GaAs device has been characterized as a function of laser photon energy, switch temperature, and applied dc electric field, and the optimum operating point has been determined through experiment. >
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