An ultra low noise telecom wavelength free running single photon detector using negative feedback avalanche diode

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Yan, Zhizhong ^a   Hamel, Deny R ^a   Heinrichs, Aimee K ^a   Jiang, Xudong ^b   Itzler, Mark A ^b   Jennewein, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; AFTERPULSING; DARK NOISE; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DETECTOR EFFICIENCY; FREE-RUNNING MODE; INP/INGAAS; NANOPHOTONIC DEVICES; NOISE EQUIVALENT POWER; OPERATING POINTS; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON DETECTOR; PHOTON PAIRS; PHOTON SOURCES; QUANTUM BIT ERROR RATE; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; TELECOM FIBERS; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; TIME CORRELATIONS; TIME JITTERS; TIME RESOLUTION; ULTRA LOW NOISE; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WEAK COHERENT PULSE;

NANOPHOTONICS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84866852808     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4732813     Document Type: Review

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