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View SchemaShot Noise Suppression in Avalanche Photodiodes
| Authors | Feng Ma, Shuling Wang, Joe C. Campbell |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0510051 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510051 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.176604 |
Abstract
We identify a new shot noise suppression mechanism in a thin (~100 nm) heterostructure avalanche photodiode. In the low-gain regime the shot noise is suppressed due to temporal correlations within amplified current pulses. We demonstrate in a Monte Carlo simulation that the effective excess noise factors can be <1, and reconcile the apparent conflict between theory and experiments. This shot noise suppression mechanism is independent of known mechanisms such as Coulomb interaction, or reflection at heterojunction interfaces.
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