Large-aperture germanium detector package for picosecond photon counting in the 0.5-1.6-μm range

Optics Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 17, 1996, Pages 1375-1377

  Prochazka, I ^a   Hamal, K ^a   Greene, B ^b   Kunimori, H ^c  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b Electro Optic Systems Pty Limited   (Australia)

^c Communication Research Laboratory ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYOSTATS; LASER PULSES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEMICONDUCTING GERMANIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

ACTIVE QUENCHING CIRCUIT; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DARK COUNT RATE; GEIGER MODE; GERMANIUM DETECTORS; PHOTON COUNTING; TIME RESOLUTION;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0030243567     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.21.001375     Document Type: Article

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