Fabrication of 40 Gb/s front-end optical receivers using spot-size converter integrated waveguide photodiodes

ETRI Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 484-489

  Kwon, Yong Hwan ^a,b   Choe, Joong Seon ^a,b   Kim, Jeha ^a   Kim, Kisoo ^a,b,c   Choi, Kwang Seong ^a,b   Choi, Byung Seok ^a,b   Yun, Hogyeong ^a,b  

^a Korea Basic Science Institute (KBSI)   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

^c Materials Research Society (MRS)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Converter; Optical receiver; Selective wet etching; Spot size; Waveguide photodiode

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BANDWIDTH; GAIN CONTROL; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODIODES; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

OPTICAL RECEIVER; SELECTIVE WET-ETCHING; SPOT-SIZE; WAVEGUIDE PHOTODIODE;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 27344451532     PISSN: 12256463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4218/etrij.05.0905.0023     Document Type: Article

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