High-speed 1.55 μm operation of low-temperature-grown GaAs-based resonant-cavity-enhanced p-i-n photodiodes

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The 1.55 μm high-speed operation of GaAs-based p-i-n photodiodes was demonstrated and their design, growth and fabrication were discussed. A resonant-cavity-detector structure was used to selectively enhance the photoresponse at 1.55 μm. The bottom mirror of the resonant cavity was formed by a highly reflecting 15-pair GaAs/AlAs Bragg mirror and molecular-beam epitaxy was used for wafer growth. It was found that the fabricated devices exhibited a resonance of around 1548 nm and an enhancement factor of 7.5 was achieved when compared to the efficiency of a single-pass detector.

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Applied Physics Letters

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American Institute of Physics

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English