Sine gating detector with simple filtering for low-noise infra-red single photon detection at room temperature
| Autor: | Nino Walenta, Tommaso Lunghi, Olivier Guinnard, Hugo Zbinden, Raphael Houlmann, Nicolas Gisin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Physics
Quantum Physics Photons Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors Photon III-V semiconductors business.industry Avalanche photodiodes Low-pass filter Detector General Physics and Astronomy Photodetector FOS: Physical sciences ddc:500.2 Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) Quantum key distribution Noise (electronics) Wavelength Optics Quantum cryptography business Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Photodiodes Jitter |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 112, No 6 (2012) P. 063106 |
| ISSN: | 0021-8979 |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1205.3084 |
| Popis: | We present and analyze a gated single photon avalanche detector using a sine gating scheme with a simple but effective low-pass filtering technique for fast low-noise single photon detection at telecom wavelength. The detector is characterized by 130 ps short gates applied with a frequency of 1.25 GHz, yields only 70 ps timing jitter and noise probabilities as low as 7E-7 per gate at 10% detection efficiency. We show that the detector is suitable for high rate quantum key distribution (QKD) and even at room temperature it could allow for QKD over distances larger than 25 km. Comment: 6 pages, 11 figures |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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