Solid-state single-photon detectors

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 938-945

  Zappa, Franco ^a,b   Lacaita, Andrea L ^a,c,d   Cova, Sergio D ^a,e,f,g,h,i   Lovati, Piergiorgio ^a,e,i  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e Italian National Research Council ^*

^f Italian Universities   (Italy)

^g Italian Universities   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

ⁱ IEEE

Author keywords

Arrays of detectors; Avalanche photodiodes; Near infrared detectors; Photon counting; Photon timing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000777152     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600702     Document Type: Article

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