Short-gate techniques for high-speed photon counting with InGaAs/InP SPADs

Alberto Tosi,Alessandro Ruggeri,Federica Villa,Mirko Sanzaro,Mauro Buttafava,Niccolò Calandri,Franco Zappa

Short-gate techniques for high-speed photon counting with InGaAs/InP SPADs

2016

Alberto Tosi
Alessandro Ruggeri
Federica Villa
Mirko Sanzaro
Mauro Buttafava
Niccolò Calandri
Franco Zappa

This work shows that InGaAs/InP Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) can achieve high count rate (> 500 Mcps) and high detection efficiency (> 30 % at 1550 nm) when operated with sub-nanosecond gates.

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Photon counting
Optoelectronics
Optics
Indium gallium arsenide
Photon
Physics
Diode
high count rate

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