Improvements in silicon photon counting modules

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5726, Issue , 2005, Pages 69-76

  Jackson, Carl ^a   Mathewson, Alan ^a  

^a ON SEMICONDUCTOR   (United States)

Author keywords

APD; Avalanche photodiode; Diode; Geiger mode; Photon counting module

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); JITTER; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SILICON;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES (APD); GEIGER-MODE; PHOTON COUNTING DETECTORS; PHOTON COUNTING MODULES;

GEIGER COUNTERS;

EID: 21844442587     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.592972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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