• DocumentCode
    1505137
  • Title

    Very low noise avalanche detection

  • Author

    Herbert, D.C. ; Chidley, E.T.R.

  • Author_Institution
    DERA, Malvern, UK
  • Volume
    48
  • Issue
    7
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1475
  • Lastpage
    1477
  • Abstract
    Recent theoretical work has shown that the excess noise of an avalanche can be quenched in high-frequency fields. In this brief, we propose a circuit to exploit this result and achieve very low noise avalanche photodiodes. The circuit also has the potential to discriminate against dark counts
  • Keywords
    avalanche photodiodes; semiconductor device noise; avalanche photodiodes; dark counts; excess noise quenching; high-frequency fields; very low noise devices; Avalanche photodiodes; Charge carrier processes; Circuit noise; Feedback; Ionization; Noise generators; Oscillators; P-i-n diodes; Probability distribution; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Electron Devices, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9383
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/16.930670
  • Filename
    930670
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1505137