Silicon avlanche photodiodes for low cost, high loss short wavelength radio over fiber links

Author

Yang, Fan ; Crisp, Michael ; Fang, Ke ; Penty, Richard V. ; White, Ian H.

Author_Institution

Eng. Dept., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

fYear

2009

fDate

2-4 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

An APD is shown to improve the noise figure of a lossy optical link compared to a PIN-TIA combination of equivalent gain. Transmission of IEEE 802.11g WLAN signals is demonstrated with 18 dB optical link loss.

Keywords

avalanche photodiodes; elemental semiconductors; microwave photonics; optical fibre LAN; optical fibre losses; optical noise; optical receivers; p-i-n photodiodes; radio-over-fibre; silicon; APD; IEEE 802.11g WLAN signal transmission; PIN receiver; PIN-TIA combination; Si; equivalent gain; loss 18 dB; noise figure; short-wavelength radio-over-fiber link loss; silicon avalanche photodiodes; transimpedance amplifier; Costs; Noise figure; Optical attenuators; Optical losses; Optical modulation; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Photodiodes; Silicon; (060.2360) Fiber optics links and subsystems; (250.1345) Avalanche photodiodes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009. Conference on

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-869-8

Type

conf

Filename

5225660