Ultralow-noise readout circuit with an avalanche photodiode: Toward a photon-number-resolving detector

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1009-1014

  Tsujino, Kenji ^a   Akiba, Makoto ^a   Sasaki, Masahide ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); LIQUID NITROGEN; PHOTOELECTRONS; PHOTONS; READOUT SYSTEMS;

CHARGE-INTEGRATION READOUT CIRCUITS; PHOTON-NUMBER-RESOLVING DETECTORS; ULTRALOW-NOISE PREAMPLIFIERS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

EID: 34047138544     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.001009     Document Type: Article

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