A fiber-assembled CW THz System operating at 1.5 microm is presented. High speed telecom photodiodes integrated with planar THz antennas serve as THz emitters with power up to 10 microW. Photoconductive antennas based on LT InGaAs/InAlAs multi-layer structures allow coherent detection. The system operates in a wide frequency range of 0.1 -1.6 THz.
A low-capacitance waveguide-integrated photodiode on InP with a minimized absorber length is presented. In order to maintain a high quantum efficiency, an optical matching layer exploiting mode beating effects is employed. Its optimization leads to a twofold enhanced external responsivity of 0.5 A/W at 1.55 µm wavelength in accordance with simulation. The reduced p-n junction capacitance enables 3 dB bandwidths up to 120 GHz mainly limited due to carrier transit time effects
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