1.5 GHz single-photon detection at telecommunication wavelengths using sinusoidally gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6275-6282

  Namekata, Naoto ^a   Adachi, Shunsuke ^a   Inoue, Shuichiro ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM;

DARK-COUNT PROBABILITY; INGAAS/INP AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; MAXIMUM DETECTION RATES; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; REPETITION FREQUENCY; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

INDIUM; INDIUM ARSENIDE; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ARSENICALS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INDIUM; MICROWAVES; PHOSPHINES; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMICONDUCTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 65149086526     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006275     Document Type: Article

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