Abstract

A gain enhanced common gate transresistance circuit is typically used as the coupling circuit between detector and multiplexer in a focal plane array. At an operating temperature of 77 degrees Kelvin, the dominant noises in the system are shot noise and 1/f noise. The 1/f noise corner frequency of the CMOS amplifiers used in focal plane arrays can .be as high as 10 kHz. In this paper it is shown that the 1/f noise corner frequency contributed to the system noise by the amplifier is a function of the bias voltage applied to the photodiode detector. Specifically, as the reverse bias to the detector increases, the 1/f noise corner contributed to the system by the amplifier decreases, while the 1/f noise corner contributed to the system by the photodiode increases. This implies there is a trade off between the amplifier contributed 1/f noise corner and the photodiode contributed 1/f noise corner. Therefore there is an optimum bias voltage, which is not zero volts, where the overall noise in the system will be at a minimum.

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Graduation Date

1987

Semester

Fall

Advisor

Martin, Robert J.

Degree

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Engineering

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PDF

Pages

84 p.

Language

English

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Public Domain

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None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

Location

Orlando (Main) Campus

Identifier

DP0025745

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