December 19, 2006
      
                  
        
  Author(s)
  Mary A. Rowe,   Eric  Gansen,   Marion  Greene,   Danna  Rosenberg,   Robert  Hadfield,   Todd E. Harvey,   Sae Woo  Nam,   Mark  Su,   Richard  Mirin
 
       
            
    
    
        We investigate the operation of a quantum dot, optically gated, field-effect transistor as a photon detector. The detector exhibits time-gated, single-shot, single-photon sensitivity, a linear response, and an internal quantum efficiency of up to [68±18] %