Comment on Resilience of gated avalanche photodiodes against bright illumination attacks in quantum cryptography (Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 231104 (2011))

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 19, 2011, Pages

  Lydersen, Lars ^a   Makarov, Vadim ^a   Skaar, Johannes ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

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EID: 81155144563     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3658806     Document Type: Note

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