Counting, timing, and tracking with a single-photon germanium detector

Optics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 59-61

  Zappa, F ^a   Lacaita, A ^a   Cova, S ^a   Lovati, P ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGE CARRIERS; CROSSTALK; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF SOLIDS; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; GERMANIUM; MULTIPLEXING; PERFORMANCE; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; BIAS VOLTAGE; DARK COUNTING RATE; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; GEIGER MODE; MULTIPLEXED GATING; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; PIXELS; QUAD CELL SENSOR;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0029779161     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.21.000059     Document Type: Article

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