Ultra-low noise avalanche photodiodes with a "centered-well" multiplication region

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 375-378

  Wang, Shuling ^a   Ma, Feng ^a   Li, Xiaowei ^a   Sidhu, Rubin ^a   Zheng, XiaoGuang ^a   Sun, Xiaoguang ^a   Holmes Jr , Archie L ^a   Campbell, Joe C ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche multiplication; Avalanche photodiodes; Excess noise factor; Impact ionization; Ionization coefficient; Photodetectors

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTICS; KINETIC ENERGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTODIODES; SEMICONDUCTING ALUMINUM COMPOUNDS;

IMPACT IONIZATION;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 0037318469     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2002.807183     Document Type: Article

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