• DOI:10.1109/JLT.2016.2577141
• Corpus ID: 35310382

Non-Markovian Property of Afterpulsing Effect in Single-Photon Avalanche Detector

@article{Wang2016NonMarkovianPO,
  title={Non-Markovian Property of Afterpulsing Effect in Single-Photon Avalanche Detector},
  author={Fang-Xiang Wang and Wei Chen and Ya-Ping Li and De-Yong He and Chao Wang and Yun-Guang Han and Shuang Wang and Zhen-Qiang Yin and Zhengfu Han},
  journal={Journal of Lightwave Technology},
  year={2016},
  volume={34},
  pages={3610-3615}
}

• Fang-Xiang Wang, Wei Chen, +6 authors Z. Han
• Published 8 March 2016
• Physics
• Journal of Lightwave Technology

The single-photon avalanche photodiode (SPAD) has been widely used in research on quantum optics. The afterpulsing effect, which is an intrinsic character of SPAD, affects the system performance in most experiments and needs to be carefully handled. For a long time, afterpulsing has been presumed to be determined by the pre-ignition avalanche. We studied the afterpulsing effect of a commercial InGaAs/InP SPAD (The avalanche photodiode model is: Princeton Lightwave PGA-300) and demonstrated that its afterpulsing is non-Markovian, with a memory effect in the avalanching history. Theoretical analysis and experimental results clearly indicate that the embodiment of this memory effect is the afterpulsing probability, which increases as the number of ignition-avalanche pulses increase. This conclusion makes the principle of the afterpulsing effect clearer and is instructive to the manufacturing processes and afterpulsing evaluation of high-count-rate SPADs. It can also be regarded as a fundamental premise to handle the afterpulsing signals in many applications, such as quantum communication and quantum random number generation.