I want to design a trans-impedance amplifier to detect currents of the APD (in the range of 200 nA to 100 micro A).
Could some one suggest me the best IC with less bias current, single supply (+5 V only) and how to design a high sensitive TIA..? (typically, for every 100 nA change in the current, 100 mV voltage should be displayed).
Hello H=Jhon Lerkin, Thanks for your swift response.. Well I don't have access to Phil Hobbs' book.. And whatever the maximum current I can detect upto 5V ...that is fine... But I am worrying about how to choose the suitable opamp and design parameters....
Huh, yeah something like that. To the OP, Putting in "rough" numbers. Say 1 Meg of feed back R, and another ~5pF of stray and opamp input C. So 1 Meg ohm*10 pF = 10^-5 sec, ~10^4 Hz (2*pi =~ 10) You'll need about a 100MHz GBW opamp. piglet's suggestion look good.
The 1 meg feedback resistor and the 10 pF of capacitance put a 10 microsecond tau, 16 KHz, lowpass filter INSIDE the opamp feedback loop. That will make it ring like hell or oscillate, and will make a gigantic noise spike.
Adding a cap across the 1M feedback resistor is the classic/clumsy/slow way to avoid the stability and noise crisis. Phil's paper and book discuss this.
A good TIA will have 100x the bandwidth of the obvious one.
APDs have a lot of internal gain, and are inherently noisy, so it might be OK to use a fast low-transconductance stage followed by a voltage amp or two.
I'm playing with a couple of new TIA circuits now, just for fun, one being a cascode+MMIC thing. There are some amazing MMICS around lately, TIAs that aren't identified as such. Of course, that circuit will be AC coupled, so I'd need to embellish it if I want DC response.
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Grin.. yeah, killing any oscillation and measuring the noise will be his problem. I was just trying to flesh out the details of how piglet picked the OPA380
Classic, clumsy and slow, pretty much describes my approach to circuit design. :^) I haven't done a TIA in a while but the stray ~0.1pF of the 1 Meg FB resistor may be enough to stabilize it.
I've never used an APD... I did buy a few from DK. I buy fun parts, and then don't have time to play with them.
Let me say why am looking for new design.. We are currently using the receiver module which has three stages:
Trans Impedance stage
High Pass filter (HPF) stage
Unity gain amplifier (just for inverting the output of the HPF)
Well...we used LM2662 as a -5V supply.. Here on we could see the hell noise below 100kHz.. I couldn't get rid of this noise by using bypass caps..but I could just reduced it.. Yet there is a lot of noise all across the circuit ranging from few kHz to hundreds of MHz...
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I really don't know what sort of noise it is and from where it is coming....
Let me say why am looking for new design.. We are currently using the receiver module which has three stages:
Trans Impedance stage
High Pass filter (HPF) stage
Unity gain amplifier (just for inverting the output of the HPF)
Well...we used LM2662 as a -5V supply.. Here on we could see the hell noise below 100kHz.. I couldn't get rid of this noise by using bypass caps..but I could just reduced it.. Yet there is a lot of noise all across the circuit ranging from few kHz to hundreds of MHz...
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I really don't know what sort of noise it is and from where it is coming...
Well, if you're connecting a photodiode directly to a SMPS, what did you expect?
Hint: Taking a spiky supply rail, differentiating it with a small capacitor, and sticking the resulting current into a high-gain current amplifier may not be what you want to do.
Of course, three lines of algebra would have told you what the results were going to be, and you'd have learned something instead of just throwing spitballs. This theory stuff really works. ;)
We've had several threads about capacitance multipliers recently, including one where I posted an LTspice schematic of a 2-stage cap multiplier that will knock that stuff down by about 180 dB, assuming that you have adequate RF shielding.
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He could start with a simple RC filter on the bias supply... that might be enough to show him where the problem is. (My hint is to look at the noise on the bias voltage and see if it looks the same as your signal noise.)
It is weird how this started as a thread to find an opamp.
To the OP, do you have any thermal regulation on the APD? I've read that the gain is a strong function of the bias voltage and temperature.
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