Ultra-compact CMOS single photon detector

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6372, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rochas, A ^a   Pauchard, A ^a   Monat, L ^a   Matteo, A ^a   Trinkler, P ^a   Thew, R ^b   Ribordy, R ^a  

^a ID QUANTIQUE SA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active quenching; CMOS technology; Fluorescence lifetime; Single photon detection; Time correlated single photon counting

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTONS; QUENCHING; SENSORS;

FLUORESCENCE LIFETIME; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 33846250809     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.692604     Document Type: Conference Paper

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