Waveguide Uni‐Traveling Carrier Photodetectors with Wide Bandwidth and High Responsivity (Invited)

Bing Xiong; Mingwei Sun; Changzheng Sun; Zhibiao Hao; Jian Wang; Lai Wang; Yanjun Han; Hongtao Li; Lin Gan; Yi Luo

doi:10.3788/CJL241112

Chinese Journal of Lasers, Volume. 52, Issue 5, 0501005(2025)

Waveguide Uni‐Traveling Carrier Photodetectors with Wide Bandwidth and High Responsivity (Invited)

Bing Xiong^*, Mingwei Sun, Changzheng Sun, Zhibiao Hao, Jian Wang, Lai Wang, Yanjun Han, Hongtao Li, Lin Gan, and Yi Luo

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Beijing National Research Centre for Information Science and Technology (BNRist), Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

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Bing Xiong, Mingwei Sun, Changzheng Sun, Zhibiao Hao, Jian Wang, Lai Wang, Yanjun Han, Hongtao Li, Lin Gan, Yi Luo. Waveguide Uni‐Traveling Carrier Photodetectors with Wide Bandwidth and High Responsivity (Invited)[J]. Chinese Journal of Lasers, 2025, 52(5): 0501005

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