Title :
Low-voltage waveguide Ge APD based high sensitivity 10Gb/s Si photonic receiver
Author :
H. T. Chen;J. Verbist;P. Verheyen;P. De Heyn;G. Lepage;J. De Coster;P. Absil;X. Yin;J. Bauwelinck;J. Van Campenhout;G. Roelkens
Author_Institution :
IMEC, Kapeldreef 75, Leuven, Belgium
Abstract :
We demonstrate low-voltage Ge waveguide avalanche photodetectors (APDs) with gain-bandwidth product over 100GHz. A 5.8dB avalanche sensitivity improvement (1×10-12 bit error ratio at 10Gb/s) is obtained for the wire-bonded optical receiver at -5.9V APD bias.
Keywords :
"Optical receivers","Sensitivity","Optical waveguides","Current measurement","Adaptive optics","Optical sensors","Gain measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication (ECOC), 2015 European Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2015.7341913
