Title :
A self-equalizing photo detector
Author :
Abiri, Behrooz ; Aflatouni, Firooz ; Hajimiri, Ali
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract :
A self-equalizing photo-detector (SEPD) that mitigates the bandwidth limitations of electro-optical components of optical communication systems is demonstrated, enabling higher rate of data transmission, using slower components. Unlike other all-optical equalization schemes, SEPD is optically wide band, thus does not require wavelength tuning.
Keywords :
electro-optical devices; optical communication equipment; photodetectors; bandwidth limitations; data transmission; electro-optical components; optical communication systems; self-equalizing photodetector; wide band photo-detector; Detectors; Optical attenuators; Optical detectors; Optical device fabrication; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; active optical cable; equalization; feed-forward equalizer; photo detector; silicon photonics;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995315
