High speed InAs electron avalanche photodiodes overcome the conventional gain-bandwidth product limit

Marshall, Andrew R. J. and Ker, Pin Jern and Krysa, Andrey and David, John P. R. and Tan, Chee Hing (2011) High speed InAs electron avalanche photodiodes overcome the conventional gain-bandwidth product limit. Optics Express, 19 (23). pp. 23341-23349. ISSN 1094-4087

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Abstract

High bandwidth, uncooled, Indium Arsenide (InAs) electron avalanche photodiodes (e-APDs) with unique and highly desirable characteristics are reported. The e-APDs exhibit a 3dB bandwidth of 3.5 GHz which, unlike that of conventional APDs, is shown not to reduce with increasing avalanche gain. Hence these InAs e-APDs demonstrate a characteristic of theoretically ideal electron only APDs, the absence of a gain-bandwidth product limit. This is important because gain-bandwidth products restrict the maximum exploitable gain in all conventional high bandwidth APDs. Non-limiting gain-bandwidth products up to 580 GHz have been measured on these first high bandwidth e-APDs. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

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