Avalanche detector with ultraclean response for time-resolved photon counting

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 817-821

  Spinelli, Alessandro ^b,c,d   Ghioni, Massimo A ^a,b,e   Cova, Sergio D ^a,b,f   Davis, Lloyd M ^c,g,h  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE SPACE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

^e IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^h Los Alamos and Oak Ridge Natl Labs   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Photodetectors; Photon counting; Photon timing

Indexed keywords

PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS;

PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON TIMING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES (SPAD);

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 0032069349     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.668769     Document Type: Article

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