Common-mode cancellation in sinusoidal gating with balanced InGaAs/InP single photon avalanche diodes

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1505-1511

  Campbell, Joe C ^a   Sun, Wenlu ^a   Lu, Zhiwen ^a   Itzler, Mark A ^b   Jiang, Xudong ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b PRINCETON LIGHTWAVE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche breakdown; avalanche photodiodes; infrared detectors; jitter; noise cancellation; optical receivers; optoelectronic and photonic sensors; RF signals; signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE BREAKDOWN; BALANCED CONFIGURATIONS; BALANCED DETECTOR; COMMONMODE; DARK COUNT RATE; FREQUENCY AGILE; GATING SIGNALS; INGAAS/INP; NARROW BANDS; NOISE CANCELLATION; OPERATING FREQUENCY; OUTPUT SIGNAL; PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTONIC SENSORS; RF FILTERS; RF SIGNAL; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DIODES; INFRARED DETECTORS; JITTER; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84869156418     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2012.2223200     Document Type: Article

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