Deborah Boisvert Director, BATEC Center for IT University of MA Boston.
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SPECTROLAB •• Development of low noise and
high speed SWIR receivers
Xiaogang Bai, Ping Yuan, Paul McDonald, Joseph Boisvert,
Robyn Woo, Kam Wan, Rengarajan Sudharsanan Boeing Spectrolab Sylmar, CA
Michael Krainak, Guangning Yang, Xiaoli Sun, Wei Lu NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD
Dion Mcintosh, Qiugui Zhou, Han-din Liu, Joe Campbell Dept of ECE, University of Virginia, VA
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https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=20180000021 2020-05-02T18:22:37+00:00Z
SPECTROLAB l;··· .. Outline .
• Motivation
• Receiver Requirements
• Gen.1 photoreceiver design and performance
• Gen. 2 design and receiver development . - 126 low ex.cess noise APO design
• Summary
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:' '21111 . .... Motivation ~D.EING • IOWIG :·. •:,<~, •
• Low-noise high speed receivers operating in the 1-1.5 micron wavelength region are needed for future NASA LADAR imaging applications
• Currently LADAR receivers use Si APO detectors with sensitivity as low as 40 fW/Hz112 for many NASA applications
- Si detectors are limited to only in the visible spectrum
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SPECTROLAB -* -Goal:
Receiver Requirements
Generation 1: 1.06µm APD receivers with 200 µm aperture, sensitivity< 100 fW/Hz112 @ a bandwidth of 140 MHz
Generation 2: 1.06µm APD receivers with sensitivity< 300 fW/ Hz1'2 @ bandwi~th of 1 GHz
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Analysis
• APO+ TIA Amp NEP , NEP= l 2qlaF + a 2 [ 2 ]1/2
Rsp M
1 F = kM +(2--)(1-k)
M
where R5P is the APO unity gain responsivity, M is the APO optical gain, F is the APO excess noise factor, k is the ratio of the hole and electron ionization coefficients, a is the TIA noise current density.
• Two critical parameters to reduce NEP
- Excess noise factor k
- TIA noise current density a
Receiver NEP
100E-12 r-4-----------.
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- lnAIAs 200 um
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• 200 µm lnP APD • Low noise TIA , SA5211 1.8 pA/Hz112 • An integrated TEC cooler and a AD590 temperature sensor chip
TIA
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SPECTROLAB f?.. ~ -f • Gen. 1 Receiver Bandwidth ~oE,NG
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Spectrolab receiver bandwidth with a 1.0 pF APO
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Fr1>quency (GH:)
Receiver response to a lOOps 1.06µm laser pulse.
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• Achieved bandwidth of 180 MHz
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SPECTROLAB ~ ~; - ., .• Gen. 1 Photoreceiver NEP
Data
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Spectrolab receiver RMS noise voltage at output
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• NEP < 300 fw/Hz112 was achieved
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NEP Data
Spectrolab receiver with 200um loP APO at 267K
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Improvements
Goal: 300 fW/Hz112 @bandwidth of 1GHz
• Quantum efficiency
- Gen. 1 lnP APO has 64% quantum efficiency
- 75% QE will reduce NEP by 17%.
• Low noise TIAs
- Select best low noise TIAs in die form with less than 6pA/ Hz1'2 input referred noise current.·
• Reduce excess noise in APO
- lnAIAs has a k value -0.22
- 12E APO design with reduced keffs0.15
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• APDs have high internal gain and associate excess noise • k factor is a material parameter for bulk material
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Graph from S. Wang, et. al., IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol.14, No. 12, pg1722, 2002
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SPECTROLAB ":;all Jlla Spectrolab lnAIAs APO
lnAIAs 800
700 Gain= 10
Cap lnGaAs P+ e 600
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Contact lnAIAs P+ "O 400 .; Abs ii: IJJ 300
Absorption i-lnGaAs 200
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Charge p-lnAIAs 0.5 1.0
Multiplication p·.anAIAs Po11itlon /um\ 1E-07
Contact lnAIAs N+ 1E-08
Buffer lnP N+ $ t 1E-09 - -
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p+ lnGaAs Cap layer, 50nm
p+ lnAIAs, 300nm
i-lnGaAIAs Absorber 1200nm
Eg-1.05 eV
p+, lnAIAs Charge layer
12E Multiplier
n+ lnAIAs Buffer
n+ lnP Substrate
• lnGaAIAs layer with bandgap of 1.2 eV is used as a multiplier
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Device A
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• Show very low dark current before breakdown.
Device B
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SPECTROL\111 Excess Noise Measurement~aeiN.o
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Noise F1gm Meter · •with'
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Testing procedure: (a) At unity gain, measure S vs. lunity to fit the 2eR(w).
(b) Measure S vs. M to get F(M).
UV laser is absorbed near the surface p+ contact layer. Electrons are diffused into the multiplier, thus pure electron injection is realized.
• Setup graph is from Dr. Shuling Wang's Ph. D. dissertation(2002).
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k-value K=0.2
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NEP analysis
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• NEP less than 300 fW/Hz112 over 1 GHz bandwidth can be achieved using 12E devices
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• Demonstrated NEP<300fw/Hz112 photoreceiver using lnP APO
• Developed lnAIAs base·d 12E APDs .
• Demonstrated low excess noise APDs, keff<0.1
• Developing Gen. 2 receiver with 12E APO devices to achieve
NEP less than 300fw/Hz1'2 over 1 GHz
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