• DocumentCode
    3691477
  • 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
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    1
  • 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"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz waves (IRMMW-THz), 2015 40th International Conference on
  • ISSN
    2162-2027
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2162-2035
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRMMW-THz.2015.7327692
  • Filename
    7327692