High-Speed Single-Photon Detection with Avalanche Photodiodes in the Near Infrared

10.5772/60481 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Liang ◽  
Heping Zeng
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Avalanche Photodiodes ◽  
Single Photon Detection ◽  
Photon Detection

scholarly journals High speed single photon detection in the near infrared

2007 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 041114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Z. L. Yuan ◽  
B. E. Kardynal ◽  
A. W. Sharpe ◽  
A. J. Shields
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Near Infrared ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Single Photon Detection ◽  
Photon Detection

Design of High Speed and High Efficiency Single-Photon Detectors Using Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes

2016 ◽  
Vol 705 ◽  
pp. 168-173
Author(s):  
Nan Zhou ◽  
Miao Qing Zhuang ◽  
Hao Liang
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Detection Efficiency ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Avalanche Photodiodes ◽  
Single Photon Detection ◽  
Photon Detectors ◽  
Photon Detection ◽  
Single Photon Detectors ◽  
Photon Detection Efficiency

Avalanche photodiodes are crucial materials for single-photon detection. Single-photon detectors are indispensable components for optical experiments and applications such as quantum information processing and quantum communications, both of which demand high single-photon detection efficiency. The authors have first developed a silicon single-photon avalanche detector in near infrared spectrum with 1 MHz square wave gating and tested its performance. Then we have also designed a high-speed and high-efficiency silicon single-photon detection system with 152 MHz sine wave gating and improved its single-photon detection efficiency to 77.48%.

Dark count probability and quantum efficiency of avalanche photodiodes for single-photon detection

2003 ◽  
Vol 83 (14) ◽  
pp. 2955-2957 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Kang ◽  
H. X. Lu ◽  
Y.-H. Lo ◽  
D. S. Bethune ◽  
W. P. Risk
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Efficiency ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Avalanche Photodiodes ◽  
Single Photon Detection ◽  
Dark Count ◽  
Photon Detection

Internal cancellation of spikes using two avalanche photodiodes in series for single photon detection

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (8) ◽  
pp. 080308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu Yun ◽  
Wu Qing-Lin ◽  
Han Zheng-Fu ◽  
Dai Yi-Min ◽  
Guo Guang-Can
Keyword(s):  
Single Photon ◽  
Avalanche Photodiodes ◽  
Single Photon Detection ◽  
Photon Detection ◽  
In Series

Avalanche photodiodes and quenching circuits for single-photon detection

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 1956 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Cova ◽  
M. Ghioni ◽  
A. Lacaita ◽  
C. Samori ◽  
F. Zappa
Keyword(s):  
Single Photon ◽  
Avalanche Photodiodes ◽  
Single Photon Detection ◽  
Photon Detection

scholarly journals Pulse-resolved multi-photon X-ray detection at 31 MHz based on a quadrant avalanche photodiode

2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-715 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Reusch ◽  
Markus Osterhoff ◽  
Johannes Agricola ◽  
Tim Salditt
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Single Photon ◽  
Photon Counting ◽  
Avalanche Photodiode ◽  
Single Photon Detection ◽  
Silicon Photodiode ◽  
Photon Detection ◽  
Time Resolved ◽  
Detection Scheme ◽  
X Ray

The technical realisation and the commissioning experiments of a high-speed X-ray detector based on a quadrant avalanche silicon photodiode and high-speed digitizers are described. The development is driven by the need for X-ray detectors dedicated to time-resolved diffraction and imaging experiments, ideally requiring pulse-resolved data processing at the synchrotron bunch repetition rate. By a novel multi-photon detection scheme, the exact number of X-ray photons within each X-ray pulse can be recorded. Commissioning experiments at beamlines P08 and P10 of the storage ring PETRA III, at DESY, Hamburg, Germany, have been used to validate the pulse-wise multi-photon counting scheme at bunch frequencies ≥31 MHz, enabling pulse-by-pulse readout during the PETRA III 240-bunch mode with single-photon detection capability. An X-ray flux of ≥3.7 × 109 photons s−1can be detected while still resolving individual photons at low count rates.

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