Planar Silicon SPADs with 200 μm diameter and 35 ps photon timing resolution

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6372, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ghioni, Massimo ^a,b   Gulinatti, Angelo ^a   Maccagnani, Piera ^c   Rech, Ivan ^a   Cova, Sergio ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b MPD Micro Photon Devices   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Photon timing; Single photon avalanche diodes; SPAD; TCSPC; Time correlated single photon counting

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PHOTONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SILICON;

FIBER PIGTAILING; PHOTON TIMING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES (SPAD); TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 33846240889     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.685834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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