Improved free-running InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche diode detectors operating at room temperature

Electronics Letters

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 996-997

  Warburton, R E ^a   Itzler, M A ^b   Buller, G S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; DARK COUNT RATE; DEVICE STRUCTURES; ELECTRICAL GATING; FREE-RUNNING MODE; INCIDENT WAVELENGTH; INGAAS/INP; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; PHOTON TIMING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; ROOM-TEMPERATURE OPERATION; RUNNING OPERATION; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE;

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; TIMING JITTER;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 70249085188     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el.2009.1508     Document Type: Article

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