InGaAs/InP Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes show low dark counts and require moderate cooling

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7222, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tosi, A ^a   Dalla Mora, A ^a   Zappa, F ^a   Cova, S ^a   Itzler, M A ^b   Jiang, X ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Active quenching; Afterpulsing; Dark count rate; Infrared photons; Photon timing; Single photon counting; Single photon detector; TCSPC; Time jitter

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE QUENCHING; AFTERPULSING; DARK COUNT RATE; INFRARED PHOTONS; PHOTON TIMING; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR; TCSPC; TIME JITTER;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); ELECTRON TUBES; GAS DETECTORS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUENCHING; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 62449088086     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.808262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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