Title :
Picosecond VIS-FIR photoconductive germanium detector
Author :
Sergey G. Pavlov;Nils Deßmann;Andreas Pohl;Nikolay V. Abrosimov;Stephan Winnerl;Otto Jacob;Roman Kh. Zhukavin;Dmitry V. Shengurov;Veniamin V. Tsyplenkov;Konstantin A. Kovalevsky;Valery N. Shastin;Hein-Wilhelm Hübers
Author_Institution :
Institute of Optical Sensor Systems, German Aerospace Center, Berlin, 12489 Germany
Abstract :
Summary form only given. A broad-band fast germanium detector based on unipolar and bipolar photoconductivity has been demonstrated. Typical response times are about 200 ps. Such short times are realized by using heavily doped and highly compensated germanium crystals.
Keywords :
"Detectors","Germanium","Time factors","Optical sensors","Crystals","Physics","Temperature measurement"
Conference_Titel :
Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
Electronic_ISBN :
2162-2035
DOI :
10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327692
