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This Is Done by Using The OPTICAL DETECTORS

Optical detectors are used to convert light signals back into electrical signals on the receiving side of an optical fiber communication system. Two common types of optical detectors that satisfy the requirements of small size, high sensitivity, and fast response are P-I-N photodiodes and avalanche diodes. In a P-I-N photodiode, light falls on the junction where it generates electron-hole pairs in the intrinsic absorption layer, and a reverse bias draws the pairs across the junction as a current proportional to the light intensity.

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This Is Done by Using The OPTICAL DETECTORS

Optical detectors are used to convert light signals back into electrical signals on the receiving side of an optical fiber communication system. Two common types of optical detectors that satisfy the requirements of small size, high sensitivity, and fast response are P-I-N photodiodes and avalanche diodes. In a P-I-N photodiode, light falls on the junction where it generates electron-hole pairs in the intrinsic absorption layer, and a reverse bias draws the pairs across the junction as a current proportional to the light intensity.

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Light sources convert electric current into light and are therefore used at the transmitter in an optical fiber

communication.

On the receiving side, this process should be reversed. That means light should be converted back to electrical signal.

This is done by using the OPTICAL DETECTORS.

1. Small size 2. Very high sensitivity 3. Fast response

Different types of Detectors such as a silicon photo-diode, phototransistor and photoresistors have been tried. But they not satisfy all the requirements listed above.

following devices satisfy all above requirements:


1. P-I-N photodiode 2. Avalanche diode

The i layer is called as intrinsic layer i.e. pure layer. The intrinsic layer is made so thicker so that almost all the photons which pass through the junction are absorbed within this layer.

1. The light to be converted into electrical signal is made to fall on the junction of the photodiode. The photodiode is reverse biased. 2. Photons enter the depletion region, and they generate electron-hole pairs inside the depletion region. 3. Due to reverse voltage applied, these pairs are drawn across the junction and leakage current proportional intensity starts flowing. Thus light is converted into electric current.

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