Title :
Resonance cavity enhanced midinfrared photodetectors employing subwavelength grating
Author :
Zohar, M. ; Auslender, M. ; Hava, S. ; Faraone, L.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Ben-Gurion Univ. of The Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
Abstract :
A new type of resonance cavity enhanced (RCE) photodetector is being proposed. The cavity in this structure includes a grating with nearly perfect retro-reflection as a front mirror and conventional multilayer structure as the back mirror.
Keywords :
diffraction gratings; infrared detectors; light reflection; mirrors; optical multilayers; photodetectors; mirror; multilayer structure; resonance cavity enhanced midinfrared photodetectors; retroreflection; subwavelength grating; Cavity resonators; Distributed Bragg reflectors; Gratings; Nonhomogeneous media; Photodetectors; Reflection;
Conference_Titel :
Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD), 2011 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-876-1
Electronic_ISBN :
2158-3234
DOI :
10.1109/NUSOD.2011.6041118
