Title :
Waveguide-integrated low-noise Germanium avalanche photodetector with 6dB sensitivity improvement
Author :
Assefa, Solomon ; Xia, Fengnian ; Vlasov, Yurii A.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
A waveguide-integrated Germanium avalanche photodetector with 6dB sensitivity improvement and excess noise with keff ∼ 0.1 was demonstrated while operating with 12dB gain at around 3V bias voltage. The photodetector was monolithically integrated into front-end CMOS.
Keywords :
Bit error rate; Gain measurement; Germanium; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical sensors; Optical waveguides; Photodetectors; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
