... (Chuang, 199 5)(Figueiredo, 2000). 1 Structures incorporating InGaAsP are usually grown by MOCVD (Bohrer et al., 199 3). Advances in Optical and Photonic Devices 186 there is a sharp drop in ... be easily integrated with conventional electronic and photonic devices (Davies, 199 8)(Mizuta & Tanoue, 199 5)(Sun et al., 199 8), such as transistors (Mazumder et al., 199 8), optical waveguides ... standard single-mode optical fibres have lowest losses (Liu, 199 6). For band gap energies between 0.75 eV and 1.4 39 eV, quaternary alloys lattice matched to InP, which combine In, Ga, Al, and...