Free-running InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode with active quenching for single photon counting at telecom wavelengths

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Thew, R T ^a   Stucki, D ^a   Gautier, J D ^a   Zbinden, H ^a   Rochas, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b ID QUANTIQUE SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM GALLIUM ARSENIDE;

FREE-RUNNING MODES; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

EID: 36249005914     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2815916     Document Type: Article

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