The breakdown flash of silicon avalanche photodiodes - Back door for eavesdropper attacks?

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 13 SPEC., 2001, Pages 2039-2047

  Kurtsiefer, Christian ^a   Zarda, Patrick ^b   Mayer, Sonja ^a   Weinfurter, Harald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUENCHING; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SPECTROSCOPY;

BREAKDOWN FLASH; EAVESDROPPER ATTACK; PHOTOELECTRON; SILICON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; SINGLE PARTICLE SPECTROSCOPY;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 6444245438     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340110070235     Document Type: Article

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