Novel monolithic distributed traveling-wave photodetector with parallel optical feed

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 681-683

  Murthy, Sanjeev ^a   Jung, Thomas ^a   Chau, Tai ^a   Wu, Ming C ^a   Sivco, Deborah L ^b   Cho, Alfred Y ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENT DENSITY; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

HIGH POWER DEVICES; MONOLITHIC DISTRIBUTED TRAVELING WAVE PHOTODETECTOR; MULTIMODE INTERFERENCE; PARALLEL OPTICAL FEED; PHOTOCURRENT DENSITY;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 0034204738     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/68.849083     Document Type: Article

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