Photovaractor for optically controlled microwave circuits

Author

Malyshev, S.A. ; Andrievski, V.F. ; Budko, T.O. ; Chen Chao ; Chizh, A.L. ; Gushchinskaya, E.V. ; Liu Baolin ; Romanova, L.I. ; Zaporozhets, E.V.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Acad. of Sci., Minsk, Byelorussia

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

401

Abstract

The photovaractor for optically controlled microwave circuits was designed and studied. The photovaractor module was fabricated as a planar p-i-n InP/InGaAs photodiode chip placed in a fibre optic matching receptacle. Study of C-V characteristics in the light illumination mode has shown that capacitance characteristics are strongly dependent on the light illumination power. These variations of the photovaractor diode capacitance are large enough to be used in optically controlled circuits such as oscillators, mixers and switchers

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; gallium arsenide; indium compounds; microwave photonics; p-i-n photodiodes; photocapacitance; varactors; C-V characteristics; InP-InGaAs; fibre optic matching receptacle; light illumination power; optically controlled microwave circuits; photovaractor diode capacitance; planar p-i-n photodiode chip; Capacitance-voltage characteristics; Fiber optics; Indium gallium arsenide; Indium phosphide; Lighting; Microwave circuits; Optical control; Optical design; P-i-n diodes; PIN photodiodes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Radar and Wireless Communications. 2000. MIKON-2000. 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wroclaw

Print_ISBN

83-906662-3-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MIKON.2000.913955

Filename

913955