Quantum efficiency enhancement by photon recycling with backscatter evasion.
The non-unity quantum efficiency (QE) in photodiodes (PD) causes deterioration of signal quality in quantum optical experiments due to photocurrent loss as well as the introduction of vacuum fluctuations into the measurement. In this article, we report that the QE enhancement of a PD was demonstrated by recycling the reflected photons. The effective external QE for an InGaAs PD was increased by 2-6% over a wide range of incident angles. Moreover, we confirmed that this technique does not increase backscattered light when the recycled beam is properly misaligned.
Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1710.07399
DOI: arXiv:1710.07399v2
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