Analysis of hot-carrier luminescence for infrared single-photon upconversion and readout

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 959-966

  Finkelstein, Hod ^a   Lo, Yu Hwa ^a   Esener, Sadik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; single photon detectors; wavelength upconversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008025485     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.901884     Document Type: Article

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