Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 43, Issue 20, 2004002(2023)
Silicon-Based High-Sensitivity Near-Infrared Single-Photon dTOF Detector
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Shuaikang Wang, Danlu Liu, Qianyu Chen, Dong Han, Jiayuan Wang, Yue Xu, Ping Cao. Silicon-Based High-Sensitivity Near-Infrared Single-Photon dTOF Detector[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2023, 43(20): 2004002
Category: Detectors
Received: May. 6, 2023
Accepted: May. 31, 2023
Published Online: Oct. 23, 2023
The Author Email: Xu Yue (yuex@njupt.edu.cn)