Study of 1.5 GHz harmonics ultrashort pulse gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode single-photon detection

Jianhua Huang; Guang Wu; Heping Zeng

doi:10.3788/AOS201434.0204001

Study of 1.5 GHz harmonics ultrashort pulse gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode single-photon detection

Jianhua Huang^*
, Guang Wu
, Heping Zeng

^*Corresponding author for this work

East China Normal University

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Abstract

A high-speed single-photon detection technique based on gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiode (APD) is proposed. The 1.5 GHz harmonics ultrashort pulse is applied to an InGaAs/InP APD, and the photo-excited avalanche signal is buried in the harmonics noise due to the capacitive response of APD. By utilizing a 700 MHz low-pass filter, we achieve 50.6 dB noise suppression and extract the avalanche signal efficiently. With the InGaAs/InP APD operated under -30°C by thermal electrical cooler, and driven by 1.5 GHz harmonics ultarshort pulse gating, a detection efficiency of 35% at 1550 nm with the dark count probability of 6.4×10^-5 per gate is obtained, and the afterpulse probability is 6.0×10^-5 per gate after 2.7 ns at the detection efficiency of 15%.

Original language	English
Article number	0204001
Journal	Guangxue Xuebao/Acta Optica Sinica
Volume	34
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3788/AOS201434.0204001
State	Published - Feb 2014
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Detectors
InGaAs/InP APD
Single-photon detection

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