Zhiliang Yuan, J. Dynes, A. Dixon, A. Sharpe, A. Shields
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Abstract
We report gigacounts/s photon counting using self-differencing InGaAs avalanche photodiodes. Its application to quantum key distribution has enabled a secure key-rate of 1Mb/s over 50km in laboratory and 304kb/s over 45km in the field-test.