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Balanced Single Photon Avalanche Detector with Variode‐Based Spike Noise Cancellation
Author(s) -
Zhang Yixin,
Xie Fei,
Yang Guowen,
Zhang Xuping,
Wang Shun
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.27961
Subject(s) - avalanche photodiode , detector , apds , single photon avalanche diode , noise (video) , optics , avalanche diode , physics , photon counting , optoelectronics , microwave , photodetector , photon , materials science , computer science , voltage , breakdown voltage , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)
Spike noise cancellation is important for high‐speed single photon avalanche photodiode. In this article, we demonstrated a balanced single photon detector at 1.5 μm that contains one InGaAs/InP single photon avalanche photodiode and one matched variode. Suppression ratio of 27 dB can be achieved. At 253 K, detection efficiency of 13.9% is obtained with 1.06 × 10 −5 per gate dark count probability and 4.3% after‐pulse probability at 100 MHz gating frequency. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 55:2877–2879, 2013