• DocumentCode
    449152
  • Title

    Filtering and high-speed switching characteristics of a C-band tunable wavelength-selective MSM detector

  • Author

    Ebrahimi, P. ; Chen, R. ; Willner, A.E. ; Miller, D.A.B.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    25-29 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    499
  • Abstract
    We have developed an MSM based, electrically controlled, rapidly tunable photodetector in C-band with switching access time of 13.8 ns. We achieve 1 Gb/s error free transmission and show <±5 ps group delay ripple.
  • Keywords
    metal-semiconductor-metal structures; optical fibre communication; optical filters; optical switches; optical tuning; photodetectors; 1 Gbit/s; 13.8 ns; 4 to 8 GHz; C-band; electrically controlled photodetector; error free transmission; filtering; group delay ripple; high-speed switching; switching access time; tunable MSM detector; tunable photodetector; wavelength-selective MSM detector;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    IET
  • ISSN
    0537-9989
  • Print_ISBN
    0-86341-543-1
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1576355