• DocumentCode
    1559926
  • Title

    Parallel feed travelling wave distributed pin photodetectors with integrated MMI couplers

  • Author

    Murthy, S. ; Wu, M.C. ; Sivco, D. ; Cho, A.Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. Eng. Dept., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    38
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    1/17/2002 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    78
  • Lastpage
    80
  • Abstract
    The fabrication and performance of a parallel feed travelling wave photodetector with pin diodes operating at 1550 nm is presented. A parallel optical feed using an integrated multimode interference (MMI) power splitter helps increase the maximum linear photocurrent through a more uniform distribution of photocurrent. The maximum DC linear current measured is 52.2 mA. Maximum linear RF power at 10 GHz was 9 dBm
  • Keywords
    integrated optoelectronics; microwave photonics; optical receivers; p-i-n photodiodes; photodetectors; power dividers; 10 GHz; 1550 nm; 52.2 mA; PIN diodes; distributed p-i-n photodetectors; fabrication; high-power photodetectors; high-speed photodetectors; integrated MMI couplers; integrated multimode interference power splitter; maximum linear photocurrent; parallel feed travelling wave photodetector; parallel optical feed; uniform photocurrent distribution;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electronics Letters
  • Publisher
    iet
  • ISSN
    0013-5194
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1049/el:20020043
  • Filename
    981579