OPTICAL DETECTION CIRCUIT AND OPTICAL DETECTION DEVICE

To detect highly accurately a signal component caused by input light to a photodiode even when a dark current generating in the photodiode increases.SOLUTION: An optical detection circuit 3 comprises: a photodiode 4 that has an optical absorption layer composed of InAsSb; a first wiring 91 that appl...

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Hauptverfasser: WARASHINA SADAHISA, SUZUKI TOMOHIRO, YAMAMOTO HIROO
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Zusammenfassung:To detect highly accurately a signal component caused by input light to a photodiode even when a dark current generating in the photodiode increases.SOLUTION: An optical detection circuit 3 comprises: a photodiode 4 that has an optical absorption layer composed of InAsSb; a first wiring 91 that applies a reverse bias voltage Vb to the photodiode 4; a TIA 5 that has a first input terminal 51a to which a reference voltage Va is input, and a second input terminal 51b that is connected to the photodiode 4; an error amplifier 6 that has a first input terminal 6a that is connected to the first input terminal 51a or second input terminal 51b of the TIA 5, and a second input terminal 6b that is connected to an output terminal 51c of the TIA 5, in which a cycle corresponding to a maximum frequency in a frequency band is larger than a pulse width of cyclical pulse light to be input to the photodiode 4,; and a current extraction circuit 7 that extracts a current from the photodiode 4 in accordance with an output voltage from the error amplifier 6.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】フォトダイオードにおいて生じる暗電流が増大しても、フォトダイオードへの入力光に起因する信号成分を精度良く検出する。【解決手段】光検出回路3は、InAsSbからなる光吸収層を有するフォトダイオード4と、フォトダイオード4に逆バイアス電圧Vbを印加する第1配線91と、基準電圧Vaが入力される第1入力端子51a、およびフォトダイオード4に接続された第2入力端子51bを有するTIA5と、TIA5の第1入力端子51aまたは第2入力端子51bに接続された第1入力端子6a、およびTIA5の出力端子51cに接続された第2入力端子6bを有し、周波数帯域における最大周波数に相当する周期が、フォトダイオード4に入力される周期的なパルス光のパルス幅よりも大きい誤差増幅器6と、誤差増幅器6からの出力電圧に応じてフォトダイオード4から電流を引き抜く電流引き抜き回路7と、を備える。【選択図】図2