A relationship between irradiance and the current needed to maintain the bias voltage applied to a silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is shown to agree with experimental data. In addition to showing the saturation of the SiPMs response this relationship can be used to determine the power consumed by an SiPM. In addition, results are presented which show that, because of its higher maximum photon count rate, a 30020 SiPM can achieve a bit error rate (BER) of 10 ⁻³ at a data rate of 3.45 Gbits/s.

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一个基于SiPM的3.45吉比特/秒的OOK VLC接收器

辐照度和维持施加到硅光电倍增管（SiPM）的偏置电压所需的电流之间的关系显示与实验数据一致。除了显示SiPM响应的饱和度之外，该关系还可用于确定SiPM消耗的功率。另外，给出的结果表明，由于其较高的最大光子计数速率，30020 SiPM可以在3.45 Gbits / s的数据速率下实现10 ^-3的误码率（BER） 。