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Waveguide-Coupled Avalanche Photodiodes For A Cmos Compatible Tranceiver Package, Nick Martinez
Waveguide-Coupled Avalanche Photodiodes For A Cmos Compatible Tranceiver Package, Nick Martinez
Nanoscience and Microsystems ETDs
Optical signal detection is most readily done with classical sources emitting signals
which undergo very little attenuation. Detection of signals with these power levels
benets from classical photodetectors, where the photon induced electronic signal is
discernible above the background noise. In other instances, where the optical signal
may start from an attenuated source, or in cases where the optical signal is severely
attenuated in transit, a detector which exhibits gain converts a weak optical signal
into a measurable electrical one. Detectors which convert a weak photo-generated
electrical pulse into a strong one do so through a process known as carrier …