DocumentCode
1373956
Title
Performance of optical receivers incorporating multiemission superlattice avalanche photodiodes
Author
Fyath, R.S. ; O´Reilly, J.J.
Author_Institution
Univ. Coll. of North Wales, Bangor, UK
Volume
24
Issue
4
fYear
1988
fDate
2/18/1988 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
234
Lastpage
235
Abstract
Recently interest has been expressed in superlattice avalanche photodiodes (SAPDs) in which the initiating carrier can impact more than one ionisation per stage, as a further step towards the solid-state photomultiplier. The authors indicate that these advanced SAPDs are likely to offer improved receiver sensitivity, compared with normal SAPDs, only if the residual hole ionisation is kept to an extremely low value
Keywords
avalanche photodiodes; optical communication equipment; receivers; semiconductor superlattices; avalanche photodiodes; multiemission type; optical communication equipment; optical receivers; residual hole ionisation; semiconductor superlattice; solid-state photomultiplier;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Electronics Letters
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0013-5194
Type
jour
Filename
5626
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