The paper presents a camera comprising 512 × 128 pixels capable of single-photon detection and gating with a maximum frame rate of 156 kfps. The photon capture is performed through a gated single-photon avalanche diode that generates a digital pulse upon photon detection and through a digital one-bit counter. Gray levels are obtained through multiple counting and accumulation, while time-resolv...

A highly accurate method for the determination of the detection efficiency of a silicon single-photon avalanche diode (Si-SPAD) is presented. This method is based on the comparison of the detected count rate of the Si-SPAD compared to the photon rate determined from a calibrated silicon diode using a modified attenuator technique, in which the total attenuation is measured in two attenuation st...

It has recently been proposed that designing selective emitters with photonic crystals (PhCs) or plasmonic metamaterials can suppress low-energy photon emission, while enhancing higher-energy photon emission. Here, we will consider multiple approaches to designing and fabricating nanophotonic structures concentrating infrared thermal radiation at energies above a critical threshold. These are b...

This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6446.

A unique combination of the time-correlated photon-counting technique and single-photon avalanche diode detectors gives an accurate characterization of gain-switched semiconductor lasers with picosecond resolution. The high sensitivity and the clean shape of the time response reveal even small features (reflections and relaxation oscillations), making a true optimization of the laser-diode oper...

We model the spin polarized optoelectronic processes in a GaAs-based light emitting diode under injection of spin-filtered electrons. To describe the microscopic dynamics we derive the quantum Langevin equations for photon number and carrier numbers. The polarization degree of the light generated by light emitting diode is calculated and compared with the experiment results.

We characterise the performance of a beam enhancing element ('photon diode') for use in deep Raman spectroscopy (DRS) of biological tissues. The optical component enhances the number of laser photons coupled into a tissue sample by returning escaping photons back into it at the illumination zone. The method is compatible with transmission Raman spectroscopy, a deep Raman spectroscopy concept, a...

Amplified Spontaneous Emission (ASE) noise mitigation from a pre-amp Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier (EDFA) to the Photon Detector (PD) in optical receivers can be reduced by minimizing the EDFA ASE noise at the optical receiver level to achieve optimal optical receiver transmission performance. The photon detector used in optical receivers is either a PIN diode or an avalanche photo diode (APD). ...