Low-noise InGaAs/InP single-photon detector with widely tunable repetition rates

Yan Liang; Qilai Fei; Zhihe Liu; Kun Huang; Heping Zeng

doi:10.1364/PRJ.7.0000A1

Photonics Research, Volume. 7, Issue 3, A1(2019)

Low-noise InGaAs/InP single-photon detector with widely tunable repetition rates

Yan Liang^1,3, Qilai Fei¹, Zhihe Liu¹, Kun Huang¹, and Heping Zeng^1,2、*

¹Shanghai Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Systems, Engineering Research Center of Optical Instruments and Systems, Ministry of Education, School of Optical-Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, China

²State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

³e-mail: yanliangSPD@163.com

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Special Issue: QUANTUM PHOTONICS

Received: Oct. 18, 2018

Accepted: Dec. 30, 2018

Published Online: Feb. 20, 2019

The Author Email: Heping Zeng (hpzeng@phy.ecnu.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.7.0000A1

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