Fast Single-Photon Imager acquires 1024 pixels at 100 kframe/s

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7249, Issue , 2009, Pages

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

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b MPD Micro Photon Devices   (Italy)

Author keywords

High frame rate; Photon counting; Single photon imager

Indexed keywords

ANALOG ELECTRONICS; CMOS FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; COUNTING RATES; DEAD-TIME; DIGITAL PROCESSING; FRAME RATES; FRONT-END ELECTRONICS; HIGH FRAME RATE; HIGH VOLTAGES; IMAGING ARRAYS; INTEGRATION TIME; INTER FRAMES; OPERATING CONDITIONS; PHOTO-DETECTION EFFICIENCIES; PHOTON COUNTING; PIPELINE ARCHITECTURES; PIXEL MEMORIES; PROCESSING CIRCUITRIES; ROOM TEMPERATURES; RUNNING SPEED; SILICON CHIPS; SINGLE PHOTON IMAGER; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODES; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SYSTEM CLOCKS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL;

AVALANCHE DIODES; AVALANCHES (SNOWSLIDES); CAMERAS; DETECTORS; IMAGE SENSORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; PIPELINES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; SILICON DETECTORS;

PIXELS;

EID: 62549105313     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.807426     Document Type: Conference Paper

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