Timing of optical pulses by a photodiode in the geiger mode

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 502-506

  Samain, Etienne ^a  

^a Observatoire de la Côte d Azur   (Greece)

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EID: 0346621480     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.000502     Document Type: Article

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