Abstract
The two main trends in the progress of ultrawideband/high-frequency photodetectors (PD's), improving the bandwidth-efficiency product and obtaining a high saturation current, are reviewed. With respect to achieving large bandwidthefficiency, the limiting factors and potentials of edge-coupled (waveguide, waveguide-fed, traveling-wave, periodic-travelingwave), resonant-cavity, and refracting-facet photodiodes, as well as the avalanche photodiode are discussed. Regarding high-saturation current, the author estimated how much the space-charge effect limits the saturation current and two ways to reduce the space-charge effect are outlined. One way is to distribute the photocarriers along the edge-coupled PD's and the other is to increase the carrier velocity using a uni-traveling carrier structure. The waveguide-photodiode-based technologies that we have developed are also presented; namely the design and fabrication of a 100-GHz waveguide photodiode (WGPD), uni-traveling carrier WGPD, 60-GHz packaging, and a 20-GHz large-core WGPD for the planar lightwave circuit integration. A 50-Gb/s receiver opto-electronic integrated circuit technology based on the WGPD is also presented.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1265-1281 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 7 PART 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Radiation
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering