Fully-integrated CMOS single photon counter

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2873-2887

  Tisa, S ^a   Tosi, A ^a   Zappa, F ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DIODES; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DETECTORS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); VOLTAGE CONTROL;

ACTIVE QUENCHING CIRCUITS; PHOTON COUNTERS; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES (SPAD);

PHOTONS;

EID: 33947410794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.002873     Document Type: Article

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