Noise spectral density was measured on GaAs metal-semiconductor-metal photodiodes. The noise spectral density is determined solely by the photocurrent shot noise at low bias voltage, but it exhibits a contribution of excess noise associated with the photocurrent gain at high bias voltage.
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