{"title":"The negative impact of anode resistance on SiPMs as VLC receivers","authors":"W. Matthews, S. Collins","doi":"10.1109/prime55000.2022.9816749","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The process used to detect individual photons in passively quenched Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) creates a nonlinear response. A model is presented to show this nonlinearity is an unavoidable consequence of microcells recharging after a detection. However, results are presented which show the nonlinearity is increased by the inclusion of an anode readout resistor. Removal of this resistor improves ambient light performance of communication links by a factor of 1.9 under 300 $\\mathrm{mWm}^{-2}$ of total 405 nm irradiance.","PeriodicalId":142196,"journal":{"name":"2022 17th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2022 17th Conference on Ph.D Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/prime55000.2022.9816749","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The process used to detect individual photons in passively quenched Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) creates a nonlinear response. A model is presented to show this nonlinearity is an unavoidable consequence of microcells recharging after a detection. However, results are presented which show the nonlinearity is increased by the inclusion of an anode readout resistor. Removal of this resistor improves ambient light performance of communication links by a factor of 1.9 under 300 $\mathrm{mWm}^{-2}$ of total 405 nm irradiance.