Laser ranging at 1550 nm with 1-GHz sine-wave gated InGaAs/InP APD single-photon detector

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 13497-13502

  Ren, Min ^a   Gu, Xiaorong ^a   Liang, Yan ^a   Kong, Weibin ^a   Wu, E ^a   Wu, Guang ^a   Zeng, Heping ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; RANGE FINDING;

1550 NM; DEPTH RESOLUTION; EYE-SAFE LASERS; INGAAS/INP; INGAAS/INP AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; LASER RANGING; LASER RANGING SYSTEMS; LOW ENERGIES; SINE-WAVE; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; TIME OF FLIGHT; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTOMETRY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; PHOTOMETRY; RADAR; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 79959901214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013497     Document Type: Article

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