Development of a high-quantum-efficiency single-photon counting system

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1063-1065

  Takeuchi, Shigeki ^a   Kim, Jungsang ^b   Yamamoto, Yoshihisa ^b   Hogue, Henry H ^c  

^a MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

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EID: 0001313765     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.123482     Document Type: Article

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