Monolithic active-quenching and active-reset circuit for single-photon avalanche detectors

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1298-1301

  Zappa, F ^a   Lotito, A ^a   Giudice, A C ^a   Cova, S ^a   Ghioni, M ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Geiger mode; Photodetectors; Photon counting; Quenching circuits; Single photon

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; DNA SEQUENCES; ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; QUENCHING;

QUENCHING CIRCUITS;

PARTICLE DETECTORS;

EID: 0037480161     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2003.813291     Document Type: Article

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