High-power and high-linearity photodiodes
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Williams, Keith J.; Tulchinsky, David A.; Hastings, Alex
- Source
- LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2008. LEOS 2008. 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE. :290-291 Nov, 2008
- Subject
- Photonics and Electrooptics
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Photodiodes
- Language
- ISSN
- 1092-8081
Recent progress in high current photodiodes now makes it possible to linearly detect over 250 mA at frequencies into X Band. This paper will discuss recent improvements in both PD power and linearity.