Ultra-Low-Noise Sinusoidally Gated Avalanche Photodiode for High-Speed Single-Photon Detection at Telecommunication Wavelengths

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 529-531

  Namekata, Naoto ^a   Adachi, Shunsuke ^a   Inoue, Shuichiro ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode (APD); sine wave gating; single photon; telecommunication wavelength

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008023474     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: 19410174     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2042054     Document Type: Article

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