Sine gating detector with simple filtering for low-noise infra-red single photon detection at room temperature

Journal of Applied Physics

Volumn 112, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Walenta, Nino ^a   Lunghi, Tommaso ^a   Guinnard, Olivier ^a   Houlmann, Raphael ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; HIGH RATE; LOW NOISE; LOW-PASS FILTERING; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DETECTORS; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

DETECTORS; PHOTODETECTORS; TIMING JITTER;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84867072107     PISSN: 00218979     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4749802     Document Type: Article

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