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We demonstrate a new, to the best of our knowledge, dimensional “horizontal optimization” scheme, which can improve the high-speed characteristics of a PIN photodetector by designing the incident optical field distribution. First, coaxially incident faculae with the same peak and same power are studied and simulated, revealing that the bandwidth of the photodetector illuminated by uniform light is higher than that of the device illuminated by nonuniform light. Next, an annular optical field is designed incident to the photodetector, and the bandwidth is further improved. For a PIN photodetector, by carefully optimizing the incident optical field distribution, the photodetector bandwidth under an annular optical field can be increased significantly compared with that under conventional coaxial illumination.

A synchronous-traveling carrier photodetector (STC-PD) with a thick absorption region and large diameter is presented and investigated for 100 Gbps PAM4 applications. In the STC structure, a suitable electric field is introduced to synchronize the traveling of electrons and holes, which achieves high bandwidth while maintaining large responsivity. The characteristics of STC-PD, including electric field distribution, energy band diagram, responsivity, junction capacitance, and frequency response, have been studied carefully.

A reflection-enhanced dual-absorption InP-PIN/GaAs-DBR photodetector was fabricated and characterized. The photodetector is monolithically integrated using a heteroepitaxy growth of an InGaAs/InP dual-absorption “PINIP” structure on the GaAs/AlGaAs Bragg reflectors. These features lead to an increase in quantum efficiency over a wide wavelength range while maintaining a high speed. The measured quantum efficiency was increased by 48.8% in comparison with that without reflectors. A quantum efficiency of 64% at a wavelength of 1522 nm and a 3 dB bandwidth of 26 GHz at a reverse bias of 3 V were simultaneously obtained in the device.

A dispersion-flattened photonic crystal fiber with normal dispersion is designed for generating flat wideband supercontinuum, and the supercontinuum generation in this fiber is numerically analyzed. The results show that by appropriately designing the photonic crystal fiber, it can achieve flattened dispersion in the normal dispersion region. It is found that a fiber characterized by a flattened dispersion with a small normal dispersion is suitable for a flat wideband supercontinuum generation. In the process of spectral broadening, self-phase modulation effect plays a dominant role. By filtering the supercontinuum, pulses with different central wavelength over a wide spectral range can be obtained. The pulse width is determined by the bandwidth of the filter.

In this paper, polarization dependent characteristics of resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) photodetector (PD) with respect to the incident light angle were analyzed in detail. The simulations carry out on a 1.3μm GaInNAs quantum wells RCE PD, which is fabricated in our group. Analysis results show that the influence of polarization can only be neglected at small angle of incidence.

This paper discussed a novel resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) photodetector with a flat-top response, which is promising for WDM application. We analyzed and compared the response curves and crosstalks of the novel RCE and conventional RCE photodetectors, and the influences of the layer-thickness errors on the response curves of the flat-top response RCE photodetectors, and the dependencies of the flat-top RCE photodetector's response on incident angle and polarization were also given.