Development of Si photonics technology: Ge/Si avalanche photodiode for PON applications

Mengyuan Huang, Pengfei Cai, Liangbo Wang, Tuo Shi, Wang Chen, Su Li, Guanghui Hou, Ching-yin Hong, Dong Pan

Optical Fiber Communication Conference · 2014 · 15 citations · 2 references

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Abstract

We accomplished the first mass-production of Ge/Si avalanche photodiode (APD) for FTTx applications in a standard CMOS foundry. Our APDs satisfy sensitivity requirements of 10G PON (both OLT and ONU sides) applications within −5°C~75°C.

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