• DocumentCode
    3076420
  • Title

    Harmonic balance modeling for photodetector nonlinearity

  • Author

    Piels, Molly ; Bowers, John E. ; Ramaswamy, Anand

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    28-31 Oct. 2013
  • Firstpage
    264
  • Lastpage
    266
  • Abstract
    A new method of simulating photodiode nonlinearities is proposed. This model can incorporate nonuniform absorption, physical effects with multiple disparate time constants, and is compatible with circuit components defined in the frequency domain. The saturated output power of a waveguide photodiode is simulated under several different load conditions, with excellent agreement between measurement and theory.
  • Keywords
    nonlinear optics; optical waveguides; photodetectors; photodiodes; circuit components; disparate time constants; frequency domain; harmonic balance modeling; nonuniform absorption; photodetector nonlinearity; photodiode nonlinearities; physical effects; saturated output power waveguide photodiode; Absorption; Impedance; Integrated circuit modeling; Load modeling; Photodiodes; Power generation; device modeling; nonlinearity; photodetectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Photonics (MWP), 2013 International Topical Meeting on
  • Conference_Location
    Alexandria, VA
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/MWP.2013.6724071
  • Filename
    6724071