Improved Multiplexed Infrared Detectors for High-Rate Single-Photon Detection
Sergey V. Polyakov, Valentina Schettini, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Fabrizio Piacentini, G. Brida, Alan L. Migdall · 2009
We present an actively-switched multiplexed infrared photon-counting system that increases counting rates at telecom wavelengths via deadtime, afterpulsing, and background-count reduction. We report a factor of 5 count-rate increase with just two multiplexed detectors.