Photovaractor for remote optical control of microwave circuits

Author

Malyshev, Sergei A. ; Galwas, Bogdan A. ; Piotrowski, Jerzy ; Chizh, Alexander L. ; Szczepaniak, Zenon R.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron., Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

2002

fDate

6/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

201

Lastpage

203

Abstract

A photovaractor for the remote optical control of microwave circuits was studied. The photovaractor was fabricated as a p-i-n photodiode placed in a pigtailed fiber optical module. The study of the impedance in the frequency range up to 3 GHz in darkness and under illumination has shown that the photovaractor capacitance strongly depends on the incident optical power. The capacitance variation of the photovaractor diode under illumination is discussed.

Keywords

electric impedance; equivalent circuits; microwave circuits; microwave diodes; microwave photonics; optical control; p-i-n photodiodes; photocapacitance; varactors; 3 GHz; PIN photodiode; capacitance variation; impedance; incident optical power; microwave circuits; p-i-n photodiode; photovaractor; pigtailed fiber optical module; remote optical control; Capacitance; Fiber nonlinear optics; Frequency; Impedance; Lighting; Microwave circuits; Microwave devices; Optical control; PIN photodiodes; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2002.1009994

Filename

1009994