Reduce afterpulsing of single photon avalanche diodes using passive quenching with active reset

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 430-434

  Liu, Mingguo ^a   Hu, Chong ^a   Campbell, Joe C ^a   Pan, Zhong ^b   Tashima, Mark M ^b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b JDS UNIPHASE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active reset; Afterpulsing; Avalanche photodiodes (APDs); Passive quenching; Single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RESET; AFTERPULSING; AVALANCHE CURRENTS; DISCRETE COMPONENTS; OFF TIME; OPERATING VOLTAGES; PASSIVE QUENCHING; PROOF OF PRINCIPLES; RESET CIRCUITS; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES (SPADS); STRAY CAPACITANCES; TOTAL CHARGES;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; CAPACITANCE; DIODES; HETEROJUNCTION BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; QUENCHING;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 60749113449     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2007.916688     Document Type: Article

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