Sinusoidally gated InGaAs avalanche photodiode with direct hold-off function for efficient and low-noise single-photon detection

Applied Physics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Qing Lin ^a   Namekata, Naoto ^a   Inoue, Shuichiro ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTO DIODE (APD); DARK-COUNT PROBABILITY; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; LOW NOISE; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM;

EID: 84880890867     PISSN: 18820778     EISSN: 18820786     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7567/APEX.6.062202     Document Type: Article

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