We consider the phenomenon of afterpulsing in avalanche photodiodes (APDs) operating in gated and free-running Geiger mode. An operational model of afterpulsing and other noise characteristics of APDs predicts the noise behavior observed in the free-running mode. We also use gated-mode data to investigate possible sources of afterpulsing in these devices. For 30-μm-diam, 1.06-μm-wavelength InGaAsP∕InP APDs operated at 290K and 4V overbias, we obtained a dominant trap lifetime of τd=0.32μs, a trap energy of 0.11eV, and a baseline dark count rate 245kHz.
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