A ring-oscillator-based active quenching and active recharge circuit for single photon avalanche diodes

ECCTD 2009 - European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design Conference Program

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 5-8

  Grönholm, Markus ^a   Poikonen, Jonne ^a   Laiho, Mika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE QUENCHING; ACTIVE-QUENCHING CIRCUITS; CMOS TECHNOLOGY; DELAY CONTROL; HIGH-SPEED; PULSE WIDTH; RING OSCILLATOR; SIMPLE MODIFICATIONS; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; TEST CHIPS; TIME INTERVAL;

CIRCUIT THEORY; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL DEVICES; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUENCHING;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 71249116955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ECCTD.2009.5275143     Document Type: Conference Paper

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