Silicon-germanium (Si-Ge) avalanche photodiodes (APDs) have large gain bandwidth product (GBP) and low excess noise due to the low impact ionization coefficient ratio of …
We demonstrate low-voltage germanium waveguide avalanche photodetectors (APDs) with a gain× bandwidth product above 100GHz. A photonic receiver based on such a Ge APD …
L Virot, P Crozat, JM Fédéli, JM Hartmann… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Recent advances in silicon photonics have aided the development of on-chip communications. Power consumption, however, remains an issue in almost all integrated …
D Benedikovic, L Virot, G Aubin, JM Hartmann, F Amar… - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Photodetectors are cornerstone components in integrated optical circuits and are essential for applications underlying modern science and engineering. Structures harnessing …
We present experimental results for a selective epitaxially grown Ge-on-Si separate absorption and charge multiplication (SACM) integrated waveguide coupled avalanche …
D Benedikovic, L Virot, G Aubin… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Fast, low-noise and sensitive avalanche photo-receivers are needed for surging short-reach photonic applications. Limitations concerning bandwidth, throughput and energy …