Negative feedback avalanche diodes for near-infrared single photon detection

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7320, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Jiang, Xudong ^a   Itzler, Mark A ^a   Nyman, Bruce ^a   Slomkowski, Krystyna ^a  

^a PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; InGaAsP; Negative feedback; Single photon detector; SPAD

Indexed keywords

AFTERPULSING; AVALANCHE PROCESS; COUNTING RATES; DARK COUNT RATE; DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; DEVICE DESIGN; DEVICE FABRICATIONS; GEIGER MODES; INGAASP; INP; MATERIAL GROWTH; NEAR INFRARED; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK MECHANISM; PASSIVE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLUTION; PHOTON NUMBERS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PULSE RESPONSE; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR; SPAD;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DETECTORS; DIODES; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FEEDBACK; GEIGER COUNTERS; INFRARED DEVICES; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUENCHING;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 69749088548     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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