A novel uni-traveling-carrier photodetector (UTC-PD) structure with an integrated focusing-reflection (FR) mirror realized by a non-periodic concentric circular high-contrast grating (NP-CC-HCG), referred to as FR-UTC-PD, is proposed to enhance responsivity in conventional UTC-PDs. The FR-UTC-PD allows improving the responsivity by 36.5% at a 1.55-um wavelength as compared to a UTC-PD without integrated an FR mirror with 84.59% reflectivity. For 40-um-diameter PDs, the obtained 3-dB bandwidths are unaltered with values of 18 GHz at -3.0 V bias voltage. The radio-frequency (RF) output power and photocurrent are -1.77 dBm and 17.56 mA, respectively, at 10 GHz and the -6.0 V bias voltage.
@article{arxiv.1908.10799,
title = {Uni-traveling-carrier photodetector with high-contrast grating focusing-reflection mirrors},
author = {Qingtao Chen and Wenjing Fang and Yongqing Huang and Xiaofeng Duan and Kai Liu and Mohammad S. Sharawi and Xiaomin Ren},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.10799},
year = {2020}
}