A 1550 nm Single-Photon Detector Using a Thermoelectrically Cooled InGaAs Avalanche Photodiode
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 40 (1R)
- https://doi.org/10.1143/jjap.40.200
Abstract
We report a gated-mode single-photon detector sensitive to 1550 nm radiation using a thermoelectrically cooled InGaAs avalanche photodiode. At the operation temperature of 238 K, we have obtained a quantum efficiency of 24.3% with a dark-count probability per gate of 9.4×10-5.Keywords
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