Single-photon avalanche diode arrays for fast transients and adaptive optics

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 365-374

  Zappa, Franco ^a   Tisa, Simone ^a   Cova, Sergio ^a   Maccagnani, Piera ^b   Calia, Domenico Bonaccini ^c   Saletti, Roberto ^d   Roncella, Roberto ^d   Bonanno, Giovanni ^e   Belluso, Massimiliano ^e  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Array detector; Fast transient phenomena; Geiger; Photon counting; Photon timing; Single photon avalanche diode (SPAD)

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; SOLID STATE DEVICES; TRANSIENTS;

ACTIVE QUENCHING CIRCUIT; ARRAY DETECTOR; PHOTON COUNTING; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE ARRAY;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 32044449194     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2005.861503     Document Type: Article

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