Highly sensitive silicon photodetectors with internal discrete amplification

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5353, Issue , 2004, Pages 29-35

  Krutov, Alexander V ^a   Godik, Edward E ^a   Seemungal, Wayne ^a  

^a Amplification Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

APD; Avalanche; Gain; Internal discrete amplification; Noise factor; Photodetector; Photomultiplier; Photon counting; PMT; Speed

Indexed keywords

APD; AVALANCHE; GAIN; INTERNAL DISCRETE AMPLIFICATION; NOISE FACTOR; PHOTON COUNTING; PMT;

AMPLIFICATION; AVALANCHE DIODES; CHARACTERIZATION; PHOTODIODES; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; SILICON; VACUUM;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 3543139457     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.529977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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