• DocumentCode
    733580
  • Title

    Impact of the coulomb interaction on the Franz-Keldysh effect in a high-current photodetector

  • Author

    Yue Hu ; Menyuk, Curtis R. ; Hutchinson, Meredith ; Urick, Vincent J. ; Williams, Keith J.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The Franz-Keldysh effect causes semiconductor absorption to oscillate as a function of wavelength. We include this effect in calculating the nonlinear response of a high-current photodectector and obtain excellent agreement with experiments.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical devices; nonlinear optics; photodetectors; Coulomb interaction; Franz-Keldysh effect; high-current photodetector; nonlinear response; semiconductor absorption; Absorption; Effective mass; Indium gallium arsenide; Mathematical model; Nonlinear optics; Photodetectors; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184021