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

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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%.

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Key Engineering Materials VI

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 705)

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168-173

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August 2016

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Nan Zhou, Miao Qing Zhuang, Hao Liang*

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Silicon Avalanche Photodiodes, Sine Wave Gating, Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes, Single-Photon Detection, Square Wave Gating

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