Electrical signal-to-noise ratio improvement in indirect detection of mid-IR signals by wavelength conversion in silicon-on-sapphire waveguides

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Huang, Y ^a   Tien, E K ^a   Gao, S ^a   Kalyoncu, S K ^a   Song, Q ^a   Qian, F ^a   Adas, E ^a   Yildirim, D ^a   Boyraz, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT DETECTION; FREQUENCY-CONVERSION PROCESS; HGCDTE; HIGH-SPEED OPERATION; INDIRECT DETECTION; INSB DETECTOR; MIDINFRARED; NEAR-IR; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SILICON-ON-SAPPHIRE; STATE OF THE ART; WAVEGUIDE DEVICE;

DETECTORS; INDIUM ANTIMONIDES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SAPPHIRE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; WAVEGUIDES;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 80855128110     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3651292     Document Type: Article

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