A view on progress of silicon single photon avalanche diodes and quenching circuits

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6372, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Cova, Sergio ^a,b   Ghioni, Massimo ^a,b   Zappa, Franco ^a,b   Rech, Ivan ^a   Gulinatti, Angelo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b MPD Micro Photon Devices   (Italy)

Author keywords

Active quenching; Photon timing; Silicon device technology; Single photon avalanche diodes; SPAD

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTONS; QUENCHING; SILICON;

ACTIVE QUENCHING; PHOTON TIMING; SILICON DEVICE TECHNOLOGY; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 33846192789     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.685963     Document Type: Conference Paper

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