Efficient and low-noise single-photon avalanche photodiode for 1.244-GHz clocked quantum key distribution

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 20531-20541

  Nambu, Y ^a   Takahashi, S ^a   Yoshino, K ^a   Tanaka, A ^a   Fujiwara, M ^b   Sasaki, M ^a   Tajima, A ^a   Yorozu, S ^a   Tomita, A ^c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

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

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; EFFICIENCY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY;

AFTERPULSING; DARK-COUNT PROBABILITY; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; HIGH-SPEED; LOW NOISE; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 80054006954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.020531     Document Type: Article

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