High-speed miniaturized photodiode and parallel-fed traveling-wave photodetectors based on InP

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-21

  Beling, Andreas ^a,b   Bach, Heinz Gunter ^a   Mekonnen, Gebre Giorgis ^a   Kunkel, Reinhard ^a   Schmidt, Detlef ^a  

^a FRAUNHOFER HEINRICH HERTZ INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

InP; Integrated opto electronic circuit; P i n photodiode (PD); Traveling wave photodetector (TWPD)

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTODETECTORS; TRAVELING WAVE ANTENNAS;

INTEGRATED OPTO-ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT; P-I-N PHOTODIODE (PD); TRAVELING-WAVE PHOTODETECTOR (TWPD);

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 33847658741     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2006.885331     Document Type: Article

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