2010/03/10 by Jung-Mi Oh, Jungmi Oh, Cristian Antonelli +2 · 10 citations
Computer Science · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Optical Sensing Technologies #Detector #Laser #Materials science #Ocular and Laser Science Research #Optics #Photon #Photon counting #Physics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Range (aeronautics) #Saturation (graph theory) #physics.ins-det #physics.optics #quant-ph
paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1364/oe.18.005906
published in Optics Express 18(6), 5906 (Optica Publishing Group)
openalex publication_date 2010/03/10 · arxiv created 2010/03/17 · arxiv updated 2010/03/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We derive an analytical expression for the count probability of a single photon detector for a wide range of input optical power that includes afterpulsing effects. We confirm the validity of the expression by fitting it to the data obtained from a saturated commercial Single Photon Detector by illuminating it with a cw laser. Detector efficiency and afterpulsing probability extracted from the fits agree with the manufacture specs for low repetition frequencies.