High-saturation-current modified uni-traveling-carrier photodiode with cliff layer

Z Li, H Pan, H Chen, A Beling… - IEEE Journal of …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate two modified uni-traveling carrier photodiode (MUTC) structures that
incorporate a charge or “cliff” layer to attain high-saturation-current. MUTC1 achieved …

High power silicon-germanium photodiodes for microwave photonic applications

A Ramaswamy, M Piels, N Nunoya… - IEEE transactions on …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate high current operation of an evanescently coupled Ge waveguide nip
photodetector grown on top of a Si rib waveguide. A 7.4 μm× 500 μm device was found to …

High-temperature performance of the 4H-SiC npn bipolar UV phototransistor

S Guo, X Zhao, X Fu, M Yang, Y Cai… - IEEE Sensors …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Excellent high-temperature performance (298–523 K) of the 4H-SiC npn bipolar
phototransistor detector (PTD) was explored. It was fabricated using the 4H-SiC epitaxial …

Nonlinearities of high-speed pin photodiodes and MUTC photodiodes

G Zhou, P Runge - IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The linearity, the RF output power, and the bandwidth for pin photodiodes (PDs) and
modified uni-traveling carrier (MUTC) PDs are analyzed for a variation of bias voltage and …

High-gain, low-noise-figure, and high-linearity analog photonic link based on a high-performance photodetector

X **e, K Li, Q Zhou, A Beling… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report a high-gain, low-noise-figure, and high-linearity analog photonic link. The link
combines a high-power and low-noise fiber laser, a Mach–Zehnder modulator, a high-gain …

Linearity improvement of high-speed avalanche photodiodes using thin depleted absorber operating with higher order modulation format

M Nada, T Hoshi, H Yamazaki, T Hashimoto… - Optics express, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We present an avalanche photodiode (APD) with high-speed, high-responsivity and high-
linearity operation to cope with higher order modulation format, such as pulse-amplitude …

Photonic high-power 160-GHz signal generation by using ultrafast photodiode and a high-repetition-rate femtosecond optical pulse train generator

JM Wun, HY Liu, CH Lai, YS Chen… - IEEE Journal of …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We demonstrate photonic high-power MMW generation at subTHz (160 GHz) frequencies by
using ultrafast near-ballistic unitraveling carrier photodiodes (NBUTC-PD), which have a …

InGaAs/InAlAs SAGCMCT avalanche photodiode with high linearity and wide dynamic range

Y Li, W Yuan, K Li, X Duan, K Liu, Y Huang - Chinese Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Linearity is a very important parameter to measure the performance of avalanche
photodiodes (APDs) under high input optical power. In this paper, the influence of the …

Measurement and modeling of high-linearity modified uni-traveling carrier photodiode with highly-doped absorber

H Pan, Z Li, A Beling, JC Campbell - Optics express, 2009 - opg.optica.org
The third-order intermodulation distortions of InGaAs/InP modified uni-traveling carrier
photodiodes with a highly-doped p-type absorber are characterized. The third-order local …

Microwave photonic link with improved SFDR using two parallel MZMs and a polarization beam combiner

F Wang, S Shi, DW Prather - Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019 - opg.optica.org
This article presents a linearized microwave photonic link by means of two parallel Mach-
Zehnder modulators (MZMs) and a polarization beam combiner (PBC). The proposed link …