Time-delay circuit model of high-speed p-i-n photodiodes

Author

Jou, Jau-Ji ; Liu, Cheng-Kuang ; Hsiao, Chien-Mei ; Lin, Huang-Hsiang ; Lee, Hsiu-Chih

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

14

Issue

4

fYear

2002

fDate

4/1/2002 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

525

Lastpage

527

Abstract

We have proposed an equivalent electric circuit model of p-i-n photodiode including the transit-time effect for performance evaluation of optical systems through the aid of a SPICE-like circuit simulator. No model-dependent close-form expression is necessary in our model. Its validity is shown for the analysis of frequency response in simplified p-i-n photodiodes with different lengths of i-region under uniform or nonuniform illumination. Its application to eye-diagram analysis is demonstrated also.

Keywords

SPICE; equivalent circuits; frequency response; p-i-n photodiodes; semiconductor device models; SPICE-like circuit simulator; equivalent electric circuit model; eye-diagram analysis; frequency response; high-speed p-i-n photodiodes; i-region; nonuniform illumination; optical systems; p-i-n photodiode; p-i-n photodiodes; performance evaluation; time-delay circuit model; transit-time effect; uniform illumination; Charge carrier processes; Circuit simulation; Equations; High speed optical techniques; Lighting; Optical fiber communication; Optoelectronic devices; PIN photodiodes; Radiative recombination; Spontaneous emission;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.992599

Filename

992599