A high-sensitivity optical receiver has been developed with a low-noise, large gain-bandwidth product superlattice APD. Minimising the front-end circuit noise has realised the highest receiver sensitivity of −27.6dBm at 10Gbit/s operation ever reported for the APD receivers.
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Ishikaw et al. (1993) studied this question.