Abstract
The ultimate signal-to-noise performance of the semiconductor photodetector is limited by the statistical fluctuations of the thermal generation and recombination rates. The background limited operation of a photoconductor (BLIP) is achievable usually with liquid nitrogen, cooling, an expensive and inconvenient method.
© 1993 Optical Society of America
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