Title :
Modeling nonlinearity in a modified uni-traveling-carrier (MUTC) photodetector
Author :
Yue Hu;Thomas F. Carruthers;Curtis R. Menyuk;Meredith Hutchinson;Vincent J. Urick;Keith J. Williams
Author_Institution :
Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 21250, USA
Abstract :
We study the nonlinearity in a modified unitraveling-carrier (MUTC) photodetector with a drift-diffusion model. We show that the Franz-Keldysh effect has a strong effect on the third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3).
Keywords :
"Silicon","Indium phosphide","III-V semiconductor materials","Substrates","Photodetectors","RNA","Photonics"
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2015
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323478
