BALANCED SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DETECTOR WITH VARIODE-BASED SPIKE NOISE CANCELLATION

作者:Zhang Yixin; Xie Fei; Yang Guowen; Zhang Xuping*; Wang Shun
来源:Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2013, 55(12): 2877-2879.
DOI:10.1002/mop.27961

摘要

Spike noise cancellation is important for high-speed single photon avalanche photodiode. In this article, we demonstrated a balanced single photon detector at 1.5 m that contains one InGaAs/InP single photon avalanche photodiode and one matched variode. Suppression ratio of 27 dB can be achieved. At 253 K, detection efficiency of 13.9% is obtained with 1.06 x 10(-5) per gate dark count probability and 4.3% after-pulse probability at 100 MHz gating frequency.

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