A photonic integrated device having a substrate layer, epitaxial layers formed
on said substrate layer and a guiding layer formed by one of the epitaxial layers.
An optical waveguide is formed within the guiding layer. In the waveguide are a
splitter (4) having at least two outputs, each output being transmitted
to a Mach-Zehnder modulator (6, 8), the phase of the output of at least
one modulator being shiftable, the signals being recombined to provide an optical
phase shift key (PSK) output (14) wherein a trench is etched into the substrate
layer between each pair of modulators to isolate the modulators from one another.