Modeling nonlinearity in a modified uni-traveling-carrier (MUTC) photodetector

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2015-10

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Hu, Yue, Thomas F. Carruthers, Curtis R. Menyuk, Meredith Hutchinson, Vincent J. Urick, and Keith J. Williams. “Modeling Nonlinearity in a Modified Uni-Traveling-Carrier (MUTC) Photodetector.” In 2015 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 122–23, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1109/IPCon.2015.7323478.

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Photonics
III-V semiconductor materials
UMBC Computational Photonics Laboratory
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Silicon
UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF)
Substrates
RNA
UMBC Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory
Indium phosphide
Photodetectors

Abstract

We study the nonlinearity in a modified unitraveling-carrier (MUTC) photodetector with a drift-diffusion model. We show that the Franz-Keldysh effect has a strong effect on the third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3).