Ultrahigh-sensitivity single-photon detection with linear-mode silicon avalanche photodiode

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2621-2623

  Akiba, Makoto ^a   Tsujino, Kenji ^a,b   Sasaki, Masahide ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNT RATES; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; LOW NOISE; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; READ-OUT CIRCUIT; SILICON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; THERMAL TREATMENT; THERMAL TREATMENT TEMPERATURE; TRAPPED CARRIERS; ULTRA-HIGH-SENSITIVITY;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; HEAT TREATMENT; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 77955198380     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.002621     Document Type: Article

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