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Gigacounts/s photon detection and its applications

Authors :
Andrew W. Sharpe
Alex Dixon
Andrew J. Shields
Zhiliang Yuan
James F. Dynes
Source :
2011 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series.
Publication Year :
2011
Publisher :
IEEE, 2011.

Abstract

We report gigacounts/s photon counting using self-differencing InGaAs avalanche photodiodes. Its application to quantum key distribution has enabled a secure key-rate of 1Mb/s over 50km in laboratory and 304kb/s over 45km in the field-test.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
2011 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........1bacaf26e0bc304ca4a1c39f2aaadf17
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1109/phosst.2011.6000024