Spectral shaping of electrically controlled MSM-based tunable photodetectors

Author

Chen, Ray ; Fu, Junxian ; Miller, David A B ; Harris, James S.

Author_Institution

Ginzton Lab., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

17

Issue

10

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2158

Lastpage

2160

Abstract

Spectral shaping of electrically controlled metal-semiconductor-metal-based tunable photodetectors is experimentally demonstrated in the telecommunication C-band. By illuminating the device with more interference patterns, we can shape and design the spectral response of the detector for various system applications. The experimental results are in excellent agreement with the mathematical models.

Keywords

metal-semiconductor-metal structures; optical communication equipment; optical tuning; photodetectors; electrically controlled MSM; interference patterns; metal-semiconductor-metal structure; spectral response shaping; tunable photodetectors; Detectors; Fingers; Interference; Optical filters; Photodetectors; Shape control; Telecommunication control; Tunable circuits and devices; WDM networks; Wavelength division multiplexing; 1550-nm photodetector; InGaAs–InP photodetector; dense wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM); metal–semiconductor–metal (MSM) photodetector; passive optical network; reconfigurable wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) network; telecommunication; tunable filter; tunable photodetector;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2005.854352

Filename

1512305