Yaru Han, Bing Xiong, Changzheng Sun, Zhibiao Hao, Jian Wang, Yanjun Han, Lai Wang, Hongtao Li, Jiadong Yu, Yi Luo, "Distributed parameter circuit model for wideband photodiodes with inductive coplanar waveguide electrodes," Chin. Opt. Lett. 18, 061301 (2020)
- Chinese Optics Letters
- Vol. 18, Issue 6, 061301 (2020)

Fig. 1. (a) Schematic diagram and (b) equivalent circuit model of the CPW. (c) The equivalent circuit model of the PD. Region 1 represents the transit time parameters, Region 2 represents the bulk and parasitic parameters of the PD, and Region 3 represents the -section distributed parameter model of the CPW. The box on the left represents the intrinsic bandwidth parameters.

Fig. 2. Two different CPW structures: (a) CPW-1 with impedance; (b) CPW-2 containing an inductive high-impedance part. The FEM simulated and parameters of (c) CPW-1 and (d) CPW-2 up to 40 GHz. The extracted distributed parameters (e) and (f) of the designed CPW-1 and CPW-2.

Fig. 3. Fitted and parameters of the 3-section circuit model of (a) CPW-1 and (b) CPW-2.
![Top view of the PDs with the (a) CPW-1 and (b) CPW-2 structures, (c) the schematic device structure[16], and (d) the epitaxial layers of the MUTC-PD.](/Images/icon/loading.gif)
Fig. 4. Top view of the PDs with the (a) CPW-1 and (b) CPW-2 structures, (c) the schematic device structure[16], and (d) the epitaxial layers of the MUTC-PD.

Fig. 5. (a) Measured and fitted frequency response at a reverse bias of 5 V and a photocurrent of 35 mA. (b) The output RF power versus the DC photocurrent at 40 GHz under a reverse bias of 5 V. (c) The 3 dB bandwidth under different biases and a fixed photocurrent of 35 mA. (d) The bandwidth improvement of PD-2 over that of PD-1.

Fig. 6. Measured and fitted parameters (0–40 GHz) of (a) PD-1 and (b) PD-2 with different CPWs at a reverse bias of 5 V and a photocurrent of 35 mA. Also, the measured parameters of (c) PD-1 and (d) PD-2 under different biases.

Fig. 7. 3 dB bandwidth limited by the transit time and RC constant of PD-1 and PD-2 under different bias voltages.

Fig. 8. (a) Frequency responses of the PDs under a bias voltage of 5 V. (b) Frequency responses of the PDs with and without the CPW electrodes.
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Table 1. Parameters of 3-Section Model (Region 3)
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Table 2. Intrinsic Parameters of PDs in Region 1 and Region 2

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