Improved passive quenching with active reset circuit

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7320, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hu, Chong ^a   Liu, Mingguo ^b   Campbell, Joe C ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b Photodigm Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiodes; Dynamic range; Gated quenching; Passive quenching; Photodetector; Photodiode; Single photon avalanche diode

Indexed keywords

AC BIAS; ACTIVE RESET; AFTERPULSING; CURRENT FLOWS; DYNAMIC RANGE; FREE-RUNNING MODE; GATED MODE; GATED QUENCHING; PASSIVE QUENCHING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE;

AVALANCHE DIODES; AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS;

QUENCHING;

EID: 69749092255     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.818313     Document Type: Conference Paper

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