{"title":"Linear and nonlinear response of the avalanche breakdown far-infrared photodetector","authors":"Fielding Brown, James Partan","doi":"10.1016/0020-0891(93)90067-H","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>It is found that the Avalanche Breakdown far-infrared photodetector responds linearly with incident power, <em>i</em><sub>s</sub> ∝ <em>P</em><sub>s</sub>, when subjected to a specially coherent signal, for example to the beam of a free electron laser, but responds according to a law, <em>i</em><sub>s</sub> ∝ <em>P</em><sup>β</sup><sub>s</sub>, with 0.5 ⩽ β ⩽ 1.0, when irradiated with incoherent radiation, as from a multimode far-infrared laser. Here the detector signal current is <em>i</em><sub>s</sub> and the incident signal intensity is <em>P</em><sub>s</sub>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":81524,"journal":{"name":"Infrared physics","volume":"34 4","pages":"Pages 365-369"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1993-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0020-0891(93)90067-H","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Infrared physics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002008919390067H","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
It is found that the Avalanche Breakdown far-infrared photodetector responds linearly with incident power, is ∝ Ps, when subjected to a specially coherent signal, for example to the beam of a free electron laser, but responds according to a law, is ∝ Pβs, with 0.5 ⩽ β ⩽ 1.0, when irradiated with incoherent radiation, as from a multimode far-infrared laser. Here the detector signal current is is and the incident signal intensity is Ps.