Large-area low-jitter silicon single photon avalanche diodes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6900, Issue , 2008, Pages

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

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; JITTER; MICROELECTRONICS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

PHOTON TIMING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES; TIME CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING (TCSPC) TECHNIQUES; TIME-CORRELATED SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 43649095572     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.761578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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