Guardring-free planar AlInAs avalanche photodiodes for 2.5-Gb/s receivers with high sensitivity

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 765-767

  Yagyu, Eiji ^a   Ishimura, Eitaro ^a   Nakaji, Masaharu ^a   Mikami, Yohei ^a   Aoyagi, Toshitaka ^a   Yoshiara, Kiichi ^a   Tokuda, Yasunori ^a  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes (APDs); Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC RECEIVERS; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; DIFFERENTIAL AMPLIFIERS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; PHOTODIODES; SNOW; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES (APDS); ERROR RATE; EXCESS NOISE; GAIN-BANDWIDTH; HIGH SENSITIVITIES; HIGH-RELIABILITY; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL-; PLANAR STRUCTURES; RESPONSIVITY; TRANS-IMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER;

HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EXCESS NOISE; GAIN BANDWIDTH; GUARD-RINGS; HIGH RELIABILITY; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH YIELD; INP; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; PLANAR STRUCTURE; RESPONSIVITY; TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 53749106463     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.895050     Document Type: Article

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