ASIC for high speed gating and free running operation of SPADs

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6583, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Rochas, Alexis ^a   Guillaume Gentil, Christophe ^b   Gautier, Jean Daniel ^c   Pauchard, Alexandre ^a   Ribordy, Gregoire ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^c   Leblebici, Yusuf ^b   Monat, Laurent ^a  

^a ID QUANTIQUE SA   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Group of Applied Physics   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active quenching; CMOS technology; Gated mode; InGaAs InP avalanche photodiode; Single photon detection

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ACTIVE QUENCHING; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; GATE GENERATORS; GATED-MODES; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 36049008772     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.722828     Document Type: Conference Paper

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