Single-photon counter for long-haul telecom

IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 34-40

  Karlsson, Anders ^a   Bourennane, Mohamed ^a   Ribordy, Gregoire ^c   Zbinden, Hugo ^c   Brendel, Jürgen ^c   Rarity, John ^b   Tapster, Paul ^b  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CRYSTAL LATTICES; ENERGY GAP; PHOTONS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM PHOSPHIDE;

SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES (SPAD);

SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS;

EID: 0033220833     PISSN: 87553996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/101.808854     Document Type: Article

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