[Laser] Spice model for photodiode?
Art
[email protected]
Wed, 25 Feb 2004 08:07:23 -0500
Good day all,
I'm a new spice user and for my first project, I wanted to model the K3PGP
photodiode preamp, especially the daylight version. I'm interested in this
because it appears that the majority of the sensitivity goes away due to
the dark version components effectively shunting the photodiode.
Burr-Brown has an ap note on daylight use of their opt210 integrated
photodiode/amp chips. They use a very large series resistor and the full
vcc to feed small currents into the op amp, which correct for the daylight
ambient light. After the output of the photodiode amp goes to zero in the
presence of ambient light, it is maintained there by another op amp that
monitors the output voltage and attempts to hold it there-except it has a
longer time constant (narrower bandwidth) than the desired reception
frequency-so it is always nudging the output in the right direction, but
never quite 'catches up'. In effect, the daylight cancelling electronics is
variable and constantly correcting. Burr-Brown says the sensitivity lost is
'minimal'.
I think the ability to make daylight QSO's without a severe loss in
sensitivity would be a good thing!
Does anyone have a spice model for a photodiode or know where I can get one?
Thanks,
Art