Practical photon number detection with electric field-modulated silicon avalanche photodiodes

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Thomas, O ^a   Yuan, Z L ^a   Shields, A J ^a  

^a TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON;

ARTICLE; DEVICES; DIODE; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; SIGNAL DETECTION; SILICON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE;

EID: 84856735807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1641     Document Type: Article

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