Low-temperature-grown GaAs (LT-GaAs)-based Fabry-Pérot cavity photoconductors, designed for RF and THz optoelectronics applications using1550 nm lasers, are studied. The sub-sampling of continuous waves at frequencies up to 300 GHz is presented. The duty-cycle-limited conversion losses measured up to 67 GHz show that this GaAs-based photoconductor behaves as a nearly perfect photoswitch controlled by a 1550 nm pulsed laser.

We present a metallic mirror-based resonant cavity-enhanced InAlAs/InGaAs metal-semiconductor-metal (InAlAs/InGaAs-MSM) photodetector driven by a 1550 nm wavelength illumination. The device shows a quantum efficiency higher than 30 %, a cut-off frequency higher than 100 GHz and a saturation current density above 40 kA/cm 2 . As a proof of concept, we demonstrate the generation of 0.25 mW of continuous wave output power at a frequency of 100 GHz via the photomixing of an optical beatnote. This result underlines the potential of InAlAs/InGaAs-MSM for sub-THz and THz optoelectronics applications driven by telecom lasers.

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