High-performance flexible waveguide-integrated photodetectors

Li, Lan; Lin, Hongtao; Huang, Yizhong; Shiue, Ren-Jye; Yadav, Anupama; Li, Junying; Michon, Jerome; Englund, Dirk; Richardson, Kathleen; Gu, Tian; Hu, Juejun

doi:10.1364/OPTICA.5.000044

Title: High-performance flexible waveguide-integrated photodetectors

Journal Article · Thu Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Optica

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.000044· OSTI ID:1416473

; Lin, Hongtao; Huang, Yizhong; Shiue, Ren-Jye; Yadav, Anupama; Li, Junying; Michon, Jerome; Englund, Dirk; Richardson, Kathleen; Gu, Tian; Hu, Juejun

Mechanically flexible photonic devices are essential building blocks for novel bio-integrated optoelectronic systems, wearable sensors, and flexible consumer electronics. Here we describe the design and experimental demonstration of high-performance flexible semiconductor nanomembrane photodetectors integrated with single-mode chalcogenide glass waveguides. Through a combination of a waveguide-integrated architecture to enhance light–matter interactions and mechanical engineering of multilayer configurations to suppress strains, the detector devices exhibit record optical and mechanical performance. The devices feature a noise equivalent power as low as 0.02 pW · Hz^1/2, a linear dynamic range exceeding 70 dB, and a 3-dB bandwidth of 1.4 GHz, all measured at 1530 nm wavelength. The devices withstand 1000 bending cycles at a submillimeter radius without degradation in their optoelectronic responses. These metrics represent significant improvements over state-of-the-art flexible photodetectors.

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Research Organization:: Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0001088

OSTI ID:: 1416473

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1470433

Journal Information:: Optica, Journal Name: Optica Vol. 5 Journal Issue: 1; ISSN 2334-2536

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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