Infrared performance of symmetric surface-plasmon waveguide schottky detectors in Si

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1852-1860

  Scales, Christine ^a,b   Breukelaar, Ian ^a,c   Charbonneau, Robert ^a,c   Berini, Pierre ^a,d  

^a Spectalis Corp   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE   (Canada)

^c DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Detector; infrared; silicon; surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

10-GBIT/S; 1550 NM; ALL METAL; ATTENUATION LENGTHS; ELECTRICAL BANDWIDTH; INTERNAL PHOTOEMISSION; INTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; OPTICAL INTERCONNECT; POWER MONITORING; PREDICTED PERFORMANCE; RECEIVER SENSITIVITY; RESPONSIVITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SCHOTTKY BARRIERS; SCHOTTKY CONTACTS; SCHOTTKY DETECTORS; SURFACE PLASMON; SURFACE PLASMON WAVEGUIDE; THIN METALS;

CONTACTS (FLUID MECHANICS); DETECTORS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PLASMONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SCHOTTKY BARRIER DIODES; SILICIDES; SILICON; SILICON DETECTORS; WAVEGUIDES;

SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS;

EID: 79958055798     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2147279     Document Type: Article

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