Title : 
Highly Sensitive and Highly Reliable APD for 10 Gbit/s Optical Communication Systems
         
        
            Author : 
Tanaka, S. ; Fujisaki, S. ; Matsuoka, Y. ; Tsuchiya ; Tsuji, S. ; Ito, K. ; Toyonaka, T. ; Matsuda, H. ; Miura, And A.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Central Res. Lab., Hitachi Ltd., Kokubunji-shi
         
        
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
An InAlAs-avalanche photodiodes (APDs) with gain-bandwidth (GB) product of 120 GHz suitable for 10 Gbit/s optical communication systems has been developed. With a SiGe-HBT preamplifier, the minimum sensitivity of -29.8 dBm was demonstrated
         
        
            Keywords : 
Ge-Si alloys; III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; avalanche photodiodes; heterojunction bipolar transistors; indium compounds; optical receivers; 10 Gbit/s; 120 GHz; HBT preamplifier; InAlAs; SiGe; avalanche photodiodes; gain-bandwidth product; high-reliable APD; high-sensitive APD; optical communication systems;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Optical Communication, 2002. ECOC 2002. 28th European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Copenhagen
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
87-90974-63-8