400-ps time resolution with a passively quenched avalanche photodiode

Applied Optics

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 1993, Pages 2907-2910

  Grayson, T P ^a   Wang, L J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode; Passive quenching; Single photon counting; Time resolution

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; COUNTING TUBES; GEIGER COUNTERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; QUENCHING;

PASSIVE QUENCHING; PASSIVELY QUENCHED AVALANCHE PHOTODIODE (APD'S); SIGNAL TIMING; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

PHOTODIODES; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; LOW-LIGHT-LEVEL DETECTION; PASSIVE QUENCHING; PHOTO MULTIPLIER TUBE; SIGNAL TIMING; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING; STRAY CAPACITANCES; TIME RESOLUTION;

EID: 0027612434     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.32.002907     Document Type: Article

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