Low-voltage waveguide Ge APD based high sensitivity 10 Gb/s Si photonic receiver
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- Authors
- Chen, Hongtao; Verbist, Jochem; Verheyen, P; De Heyn, P; Lepage, G; De Coster, J; Absil, P; Yin, Xin; Bauwelinck, Johan; Van Campenhout, J; Roelkens, Günther
- Source
- ECOC 2015 : 41st European conference on optical communication
- Subject
- Technology and Engineering
- Language
- English
We demonstrate low-voltage Ge waveguide avalanche photodetectors (APDs) with gain-bandwidth product over 100GHz. A 5.8dB avalanche sensitivity improvement (1x10(-12) bit error ratio at 10Gb/s) is obtained for the wire-bonded optical receiver at -5.9V APD bias.