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
fDate :
2/18/1988 12:00:00 AM
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;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
