{"title":"Photodiode compression due to current-dependent capacitance","authors":"K. Williams, P. Goetz","doi":"10.1109/MWP.2000.889828","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We present photodetector compression measurements and simulations to demonstrate the consequences of absorption in undepleted regions of p-i-n photodiodes. Specifically, this absorption can cause compression when operated above a few milliamps due to a current-dependent capacitance.","PeriodicalId":354312,"journal":{"name":"International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics MWP 2000 (Cat. No.00EX430)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2000-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"7","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics MWP 2000 (Cat. No.00EX430)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MWP.2000.889828","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We present photodetector compression measurements and simulations to demonstrate the consequences of absorption in undepleted regions of p-i-n photodiodes. Specifically, this absorption can cause compression when operated above a few milliamps due to a current-dependent capacitance.