Controlling an actively-quenched single photon detector with bright light

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 23590-23600

  Sauge, Sebastien ^a   Lydersen, Lars ^b,c   Anisimov, Andrey ^d   Skaar, Johannes ^b,c   Makarov, Vadim ^b,c  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DC-DC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

DETECTOR MODELS; PERKINELMER; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION; SECRET KEY; SECURITY PROOFS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; VISIBLE AND NEAR INFRARED;

DETECTORS;

EID: 80755181033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.023590     Document Type: Article

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