SPADA: Single-photon avalanche diode arrays

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 657-659

  Zappa, Franco ^a   Gulinatti, Angelo ^a   Maccagnani, Piera ^b   Tisa, Simone ^a   Cova, Sergio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Array detector; Geiger mode; Photon counting; Photon timing; Single photon avalanche diode (SPAD)

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATED OPTOELECTRONICS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; SENSORS;

ARRAY DETECTOR; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON TIMING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE (SPAD);

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 14844344865     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2004.840920     Document Type: Article

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