GigaHertz bandwidth photon counting

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7320, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Farr, William H ^a   Gin, Jonathan ^a   Nguyen, Dan ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser communications; Photon counting; Single photon detector

Indexed keywords

COUNT RATES; DATA RATES; DEEP SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; DETECTED PHOTONS; FLUX RATES; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; GEIGER MODES; HIGH BANDWIDTH; HIGH DATA RATE; INTENSIFIED PHOTODIODES; LASER COMMUNICATIONS; LOW NOISE PERFORMANCE; PHOTON COUNT; PHOTON COUNTERS; PHOTON COUNTING; REAL - TIME SYSTEM; SEMICONDUCTOR AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; SENSITIVE DETECTOR; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE; TIMING RESOLUTIONS; VISIBLE LIGHT PHOTON COUNTERS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONICS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEMICONDUCTOR COUNTERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

PHOTONS;

EID: 69749090762     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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