Performance of InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiodes as gated-mode photon counters

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2272-2277

  Ribordy, Grégoire ^a   Gautier, Jean Daniel ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; GATES (TRANSISTOR); PERFORMANCE; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

AFTERPULSE; DARK COUNT RATE; PHOTON COUNTER; TIMING RESOLUTION;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 0032049044     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.002272     Document Type: Article

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