ANALOG DIFFERENTIAL SELF-LINEARIZED QUANTUM-WELL SELF-ELECTRO-OPTIC-EFFECT MODULATOR

We describe an analog self-electro-optic-effect device that gives a di fference between two optical output powers that is linearly proportion al to electrical or optical drive, permitting bipolar processing in no vel image-processing arrays. The device is able to operate over a rang e of more than four orders of magnitude optical power, from 50 nW to 2 .5 mW, corresponding to uniform incident intensities as low as 3.3 MW/ cm2.