Realization of Silicon Single-Photon Detector with Ultra-Low Dark Count Rate

Yanxin Liu; Qing Fan; Xiangyan Li; Shaokang Li; Qinxia Wang; Gang Li; Pengfei Zhang; Tiancai Zhang

doi:10.3788/AOS202040.1004001

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