Low-timing-jitter single-photon detection using 1-GHz sinusoidally gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 887-889

  Liang, Yan ^a   Wu, E ^a   Chen, Xiuliang ^a   Ren, Min ^a   Jian, Yi ^a   Wu, Guang ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode (APD); photon detector

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; AVALANCHE SIGNALS; CLOCK RATE; COUNT RATES; DARK COUNT RATE; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; INGAAS/INP; INGAAS/INP AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; LOW-PASS FILTERING; PHOTON DETECTOR; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SINE-WAVE; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; WAVEFORM DISTORTIONS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; TIMING JITTER;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79958755014     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2011.2141982     Document Type: Article

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