A 3.45 Gigabits/s SiPM-Based OOK VLC Receiver
William Matthews, Zubair Ahmed, Wajahat Ali, Steve Collins
Abstract
A relationship between irradiance and the current needed to maintain the bias voltage applied to a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is shown to agree with experimental data. In addition to showing the saturation of the SiPMs response this relationship can be used to determine the power consumed by an SiPM. In addition, results are presented which show that, because of its higher maximum photon count rate, a 30020 SiPM can achieve a bit error rate (BER) of 10 <sup xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">-3</sup> at a data rate of 3.45 Gbits/s.
Topics & Concepts
Silicon photomultiplierGigabitPhysicsBiasingBit error ratePhotomultiplierElectronic engineeringOpticsOptoelectronicsVoltageComputer scienceElectrical engineeringDetectorTelecommunicationsEngineeringDecoding methodsQuantum mechanicsScintillatorPhotonic and Optical DevicesOptical Wireless Communication TechnologiesAdvanced Photonic Communication Systems