Recent advances in photodetectors with distributed optical amplification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5246, Issue , 2003, Pages 480-490

  Lasaosa, Daniel ^a   Pasquariello, Donato ^a   Piprek, Joachim ^a   Bowers, John E ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifier; Distributed gain; Efficiency; GaAs; InP; Photodetector; Saturation

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED GAIN; OPTICAL PREAMPLIFICATION;

AMPLIFICATION; CHARGE CARRIERS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTOCURRENTS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 1642473112     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.531987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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