Empirical formulae for excess noise factor with dead space for single carrier multiplication

Ahmad H. Dehwah; Idris A. Ajia; John S. Marsland

doi:10.1142/S0219477511000600

Empirical formulae for excess noise factor with dead space for single carrier multiplication

Ahmad H. Dehwah, Idris A. Ajia, John S. Marsland

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In this letter, two empirical equations are presented for the calculation of the excess noise factor of an avalanche photodiode for single carrier multiplication including the dead space effect. The first is an equation for calculating the excess noise factor when the multiplication approaches infinity as a function of parameters that describe the degree of the dead space effect. The second equation can be used to find the minimum value of the excess noise factor for any multiplication when the dead space effect is completely dominant, the so called "deterministic" limit. This agrees with the theoretically known equation for multiplications less than or equal to two. © 2011 World Scientific Publishing Company.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	315-321
Number of pages	7
Journal	Fluctuation and Noise Letters
Volume	10
Issue number	03
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219477511000600
State	Published - Apr 30 2012

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: Dehwah and Ajia acknowledge King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST, for sponsorship including support for a placement project at the University of Liverpool. Marsland acknowledges financial support from KAUST for the provision of a research placement project.

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Empirical formulae for excess noise factor with dead space for single carrier multiplication

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