Title :
Filtering and high-speed switching characteristics of a C-band tunable wavelength-selective MSM detector
Author :
Ebrahimi, P. ; Chen, R. ; Willner, A.E. ; Miller, D.A.B.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Abstract :
We have developed an MSM based, electrically controlled, rapidly tunable photodetector in C-band with switching access time of 13.8 ns. We achieve 1 Gb/s error free transmission and show <±5 ps group delay ripple.
Keywords :
metal-semiconductor-metal structures; optical fibre communication; optical filters; optical switches; optical tuning; photodetectors; 1 Gbit/s; 13.8 ns; 4 to 8 GHz; C-band; electrically controlled photodetector; error free transmission; filtering; group delay ripple; high-speed switching; switching access time; tunable MSM detector; tunable photodetector; wavelength-selective MSM detector;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communication, 2005. ECOC 2005. 31st European Conference on
Conference_Location :
IET
Print_ISBN :
0-86341-543-1
