Room-temperature single-photon detection with 1.5-ghz gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode

Yan Liang; Yuanjin Chen; Zinan Huang; Guomin Bai; Min Yu; Heping Zeng

doi:10.1109/LPT.2016.2630273

Room-temperature single-photon detection with 1.5-ghz gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode

Yan Liang
, Yuanjin Chen
, Zinan Huang
, Guomin Bai
, Min Yu
, Heping Zeng^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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A room-temperature single-photon detector was demonstrated with InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode (APD) with negligible afterpulse effect and low dark count rates. The APD was operated in 1.5-GHz sinusoidally gated Geiger mode by using appropriate low-pass filters to minimize the capacitive spike noises. A detection efficiency of 21% was attained with the dark count rate of 8 ×10 -5 per gate and a afterpulse probability of 1.4%, showing excellent performance without cooling. Moreover, we varied the amplitude of the sinusoidal gates to further optimize the performance. The room-temperature single-photon detectors with compact structures and low power consumption offer advantages in practical quantum key distribution and ultra-distance laser ranging systems.

Original language	English
Article number	7747499
Pages (from-to)	142-145
Number of pages	4
Journal	IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume	29
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2630273
State	Published - 1 Jan 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Single-photon detection
avalanche photodiodes
high-speed detection
room temperature

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