Variable-Load Quenching Circuit for single-photon avalanche diodes

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 2232-2244

  Tisa, Simone ^a   Guerrieri, Fabrizio ^a   Zappa, Franco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIAS VOLTAGE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; JITTER; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PHOTONS; QUENCHING; SEMICONDUCTOR DETECTORS;

AVALANCHE CURRENT; QUENCHING CIRCUITS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTION;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

ARTICLE; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TRANSDUCER;

ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 39049168460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.002232     Document Type: Article

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