A fast active quenching and recharging circuit for single-photon avalanche diodes

Proceedings of the 2005 European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 385-388

  Mita, Rosario ^a   Palumbo, Gaetano ^a   Fallica, Giorgio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); PHOTONS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

ACTIVE QUENCHING AND RECHARGING CIRCUIT (AQRC); POWER DISSIPATION; QUENCHING TIME; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHES DIODES (SPAD);

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 33748991472     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCTD.2005.1523141     Document Type: Conference Paper

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