Title :
Transit-time limited response from low capacitance CMOS photodetectors
Author :
Bhatnagar, Aparna ; Latif, Salman ; Miller, David A B
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., CA, USA
Abstract :
Efficient GHz silicon detectors in unmodified CMOS processes are attractive for dense optical interconnection to electronics. Using blue short pulses we demonstrate 50 ps rise time lateral P-I-N detectors in a commercial silicon-on-sapphire CMOS process.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; integrated optoelectronics; p-i-n photodiodes; photodetectors; sapphire; silicon; CMOS photodetectors; GHz silicon detectors; P-I-N detectors; Si-Al/sub 2/O/sub 3/; blue short pulses; commercial silicon-on-sapphire CMOS process; dense optical interconnection; electronics; low capacitance photodetectors; transit-time limited response;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
