Small-active-area germanium avalanche photodiode for single-mode fibre at 1.3 μm wavelength

Matsukawa, Takashi; Kaneda, T.; Nishimoto, Hiroshi; Motegi, Masanori; Okushima, Hirohisa

doi:10.1049/el:19830309

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“…We have studied the performance of several germanium APD's from different suppliers. These APD's include the Fujitsu FPD13R31 with a 30-tim diameter (indicated as F-APD in the following), 16 the Judson J16A with a 100-tm diameter (indicated as J-APD), and a few developmental devices from Siemens with 50-tim diameters. The latter devices showed performance similar to the Fujitsu samples; therefore we shall not mention them further.…”

Section: Selection Of Germanium Apd'smentioning

confidence: 99%

Single-photon detection beyond 1 μm: performance of commercially available germanium photodiodes

et al. 1994

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Germanium avalanche photodiodes (APD's) working biased above the breakdown voltage detect single optical photons in the near-infrared wavelength range. We give guidelines for the selection of devices suitable for photon-counting applications among the commercial samples, and we discuss in detail how the devices should be operated to achieve the best performance, both in terms of noise-equivalent power (NEP) and the timing-equivalent bandwidth. We introduce the driving electronics and we show that, in the measurements of fast optical signals, the adoption of single-photon techniques is very favorable, notwithstanding that presently available photodiodes are not designed for this purpose. On the contrary, in the detection of cw signals, the lower NEP values achieved in photon counting may not be sufficient to justify the replacement of conventional analog p-i-n germanium detectors, which offer comparable performance with a definitely larger sensitive area. Finally, we show that, by properly choosing theoperating conditions, some selected APD's achieve an 85-ps time resolution in the detection of optical photons at a 1.3-µm wavelength, which corresponds to a timing-equivalent bandwidth of 1.8 GHz. To the best of our knowledge, this time resolution is the lowest reported to date for single-photon detectors in the near infrared.

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Section: Selection Of Germanium Apd'smentioning

confidence: 99%