Sub-Poissonian shot noise of a high internal gain injection photon detector

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 12701-12706

  Memis, Omer Gokalp ^a   Katsnelson, Alex ^a   Kong, Soon Cheol ^a   Mohseni, Hooman ^a   Yan, Minjun ^b   Zhang, Shuang ^b   Hossain, Tim ^b   Jin, Niu ^b   Adesida, Ilesanmi ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS;

ABSORBED PHOTONS; FANO FACTOR; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; NOISE PERFORMANCE; OPTICAL-TO-ELECTRICAL CONVERSION; PHOTON DETECTOR; POISSONIAN;

SHOT NOISE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 50049131840     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012701     Document Type: Article

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