A high-responsivity high-bandwidth asymmetric twin-waveguide coupled InGaAs-InP-InAlAs avalanche photodiode

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1590-1592

  Wei, Jian ^a   Xia, Fengnian ^a   Forrest, Stephen R ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Twin waveguide; Waveguide avalanche photodiode

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; BANDWIDTH; FITS AND TOLERANCES; GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; WAVEGUIDE COUPLERS;

HIGH BANDWIDTH AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; HIGH RESPONSIVITY AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; INDIUM ALUMINUM ARSENIDE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; TWIN WAVEGUIDE AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0036852842     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2002.803894     Document Type: Article

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