High‐Speed Photodetectors on Silicon Photonics Platform for Optical Interconnect

G Chen, Y Yu, Y Shi, N Li, W Luo, L Cao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A photodetector (PD) converts optical signals into electrical ones and is widely used in
optical interconnect. High‐speed PDs are in high demand as they are necessary to meet …

Silicon–germanium receivers for short-wave-infrared optoelectronics and communications: High-speed silicon–germanium receivers (invited review)

D Benedikovic, L Virot, G Aubin, JM Hartmann… - …, 2021 - degruyter.com
Integrated silicon nanophotonics has rapidly established itself as intriguing research field,
whose outlets impact numerous facets of daily life. Indeed, nanophotonics has propelled …

Integrated silicon photonics for enabling next-generation space systems

GN Tzintzarov, SG Rao, JD Cressler - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
A review of silicon photonics for space applications is presented. The benefits and
advantages of size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) metrics inherent to silicon photonics …

High-speed photodetectors for microwave photonics

K Sun, A Beling - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews high-power photodiodes, waveguide photodetectors, and integrated
photodiode-antenna emitters with bandwidths up to 150 GHz. Results from heterogeneous …

Mode-evolution-based coupler for high saturation power Ge-on-Si photodetectors

MJ Byrd, E Timurdogan, Z Su, CV Poulton… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We propose a mode-evolution-based coupler for high saturation power germanium-on-
silicon photodetectors. This coupler uniformly illuminates the intrinsic germanium region of …

Germanium photodetector with distributed absorption regions

D Zhou, G Chen, S Fu, Y Zuo, Y Yu - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The bandwidth and saturation power of germanium photodetectors are two crucial
parameters for implementing analog and microwave photonics circuits. In conventional …

High-power photodiodes with 65 GHz bandwidth heterogeneously integrated onto silicon-on-insulator nano-waveguides

Y Wang, Z Wang, Q Yu, X Xie, T Posavitz… - IEEE Journal of …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-speed InP-based modified uni-traveling carrier photodiodes with top p-contact on
silicon-on-insulator nanowaveguides are reported. The photodiodes have low dark current …

Foundry-enabled high-power photodetectors for microwave photonics

TC Tzu, K Sun, R Costanzo, D Ayoub… - IEEE Journal of …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report on arrayed germanium-on-silicon waveguide photodetectors for high-power
analog applications utilizing the AIM Photonics silicon foundry. Photodetector arrays with …

High-speed and high-power germanium photodetector based on a trapezoidal absorber

Y Zhu, Z Liu, C Niu, Y Pang, D Zhang, X Liu, J Zheng… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
A compact high-power germanium photodetector (Ge PD) is experimentally demonstrated
by re-engineering light distribution in the absorber. Compared with a conventional Ge PD …

Millimeter-wave generation using hybrid silicon photonics

I Degli-Eredi, P An, J Drasbæk… - Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Technological innovation with millimeter waves (mm waves), signals having carrier
frequencies between 30 and 300 GHz, has become an increasingly important research field …