Recent advances in very large area avalanche photodiodes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5071, Issue , 2003, Pages 405-410

  Squillante, Michael R ^a   Christian, James ^a   Entine, Gerald ^a   Farrell, Richard ^a   Karger, Arieh ^a   McClish, Mickel ^a   Myers, Richard ^a   Shah, Kanai ^a   Taylor, David ^a   Vanderpuye, Kofi ^a   Waer, Peter ^a   Woodring, Mitchell ^a  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

APD; APD array; Avalanche Photodiode; Chem bio; Laser radar; LIDAR

Indexed keywords

APD; APD ARRAYS; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES;

AVALANCHE DIODES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; FLUORESCENCE; GAMMA RAYS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PHOTODIODES;

EID: 1642475214     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.517444     Document Type: Conference Paper

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