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High Performance, Low Cost PIN, APD Receivers in Fiber Optical ...

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Failure Rates vs. Activation Energy<br />

1000<br />

Failure Rate vs. Ea<br />

P ro jected F ailu re R ate,<br />

FIT<br />

100<br />

10<br />

1<br />

0.1<br />

MOCVD <strong>APD</strong><br />

0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1<br />

Activation Energy, eV<br />

With >5000 hrs<br />

accelerated ag<strong>in</strong>g test,<br />

activation energy is<br />

extracted.<br />

With the estimated Ea of 0.96 eV, these devices have very small FIT (< 1 FIT).<br />

WOCC-2005

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