Modeling of Waveguide PIN Photodetectors Under Very High Optical Power

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 2304-2310

  Harari, Joseph ^a   Journet, Frédéric ^a   Rabii, Omar ^a   Jin, Guanghai ^a   Vilcot, Jean Pierre ^a   Decoster, Didier ^a  

^a INSTITUT D ELECTRONIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL LINKS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE STRUCTURES; SEMICONDUCTOR GROWTH; SUBSTRATES; WAVEGUIDES;

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; OPTICAL POWER; PSEUDO BIDIMENSIONAL DRIFT DIFFUSION MODEL;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0029375858     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.414582     Document Type: Article

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