A simple method for afterpulse probability measurement in high-speed single-photon detectors

作者:Liu, Junliang; Li, Yongfu*; Ding, Lei; Zhang, Chunfang; Fang, Jiaxiong
来源:Infrared Physics & Technology, 2016, 77: 451-455.
DOI:10.1016/j.infrared.2016.06.027

摘要

A simple statistical method is proposed for afterpulse probability measurement in high-speed single photon detectors. The method is based on in-laser-period counting without the support of time correlated information or delay adjustment, and is readily implemented with commercially available logic devices. We present comparisons among the proposed method and commonly used methods which use the time-correlated single-photon counter or the gated counter, based on a 1.25-GHz gated infrared single-photon detector. Results show that this in-laser-period counting method has similar accuracy to the commonly used methods with extra simplicity, robustness, and faster measuring speed.