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Enhancement of Photodetector Responsivity and Response Speed Using Cascaded-Cavity Structure with Subwavelength Metallic Slit |
| DU Ming-Di, SUN Jun-Qiang**, QIN Yi, LIAO Jian-Fei |
Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074
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DU Ming-Di, SUN Jun-Qiang, QIN Yi et al 2013 Chin. Phys. Lett. 30 074201 |
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Abstract A cascaded-cavity photodetector with subwavelength metallic slit is proposed to enhance responsivity and response speed simultaneously. Responsivity enhancement depends on light transmittance increased by using a subwavelength metallic slit plasmonic mode resonant cavity; it also relies on quantum efficiency improved by adopting a resonant cavity enhanced structure. Response speed improvement is due to low capacitance of metal-slit-metal and thin absorption layers. In the cascaded-cavity structure, the subwavelength metallic slit plays a vital role in performance improvements. Simulation results show that, for the optimized slit structure, responsivity enhancement of 80 times can be achieved compared to the conventional structure. In addition, response bandwidth of the optimized structure can reach 150 GHz.
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Received: 18 March 2013
Published: 21 November 2013
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42.60.Da
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(Resonators, cavities, amplifiers, arrays, and rings)
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42.60.Lh
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(Efficiency, stability, gain, and other operational parameters)
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78.20.Bh
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(Theory, models, and numerical simulation)
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