Waveguide integrated photodiode for analog fiber-optics links

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2604-2610

  Jiang, Hao ^a   Yu, Paul K L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Analog systems; Optical saturation; Photodiodes; Waveguides

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MICROWAVES; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTOCURRENTS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

OPTICAL POWER SATURATION;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0034427337     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.899019     Document Type: Article

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