Nonselective reactive ion beam etching (RIBE) using Cl-2/Ar mixtures a
t elevated temperatures and two isotropic wet chemistries (HCl/HNO3/H2
O2 and HCl/H2O2/H2O) have been developed for fabricating 1.3 mu m opti
cal transmission modulators employing periodic multilayers of InGaAs/I
nAlAs.