High Frequency Optical Receivers.

Abstract

A 44 GHz optical receiver was designed and fabricated that integrated a photodetector and transistors. Photodetector layers, designed for absorption of 770 nm light, contained an AlGaAs cap layer to prevent any surface recombination of carriers; a thin GaAs absorption layer (312 nm) used to achieve high frequency response (greater than 40 GHz) through high electric field and soft carrier path; and Bragg reflector layers, to reflect unabsorbed light back into the absorption region. The whole detector layer was designed to maximize the optical signal absorption. (MM)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA299547

Entities

People

  • Jinwook Burm
  • Joseph Ballantyne
  • Kerry Litvin
  • Lester F. Eastman
  • Michael Leary

Organizations

  • Cornell University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Electron Beam Lithography
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Frequency Response
  • High Electron Mobility Transistors
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Metal-Semiconductor-Metal Photodetectors
  • Optical Detectors
  • Optical Properties
  • Optics
  • Photodetectors
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Semiconductor Devices
  • Semiconductors
  • Transistors

Fields of Study

  • Materials science

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology