InGaAsP/InP single photon avalanche photodetectors for 1.06 μm free-running photon counting

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007, CLEO 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Itzler, Mark A ^a   Jiang, Xudong ^a   Ben Michael, Rafael ^a   Slomkowski, Krystyna ^a   Krainak, Michael A ^b   Wu, Stewart ^b   Sun, Xiaoli ^b  

^a PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DARK COUNT RATE; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; INGAASP/INP; PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE PHOTONS;

AVALANCHE DIODES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 82955223445     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO.2007.4452559     Document Type: Conference Paper

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