An integrated active-quenching circuit for single-photon avalanche diodes

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1167-1175

  Zappa, Franco ^a,b   Ghioni, Massimo ^a,b   Cova, Sergio ^a,b   Samori, Carlo ^a,b   Giudice, Andrea Carlo ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active quenching circuit (AQC); Application specific integrated circuit (ASIC); Avalanche photodiode (APD); Photo detection module; Photon counting; Single photon avalanche diode (SPAD); Single photon detection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN OF SOLIDS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

INTEGRATED ACTIVE QUENCHING CIRCUIT; PHOTON CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; SOFTWARE PACKAGE SPICE;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0034467140     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.893251     Document Type: Article

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