Single-photon camera for high-sensitivity high-speed applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7536, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Guerrieri, Fabrizio ^a   Tisa, Simone ^b   Tosi, Alberto ^a   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

3D IMAGING; COUNTING RATES; CROSS-PLATFORM; DEADTIME; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; FILL-FACTOR; FRAME RATE; HIGH FRAME RATE; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED APPLICATIONS; HIGH-VOLTAGES; INTEGRATION TIME; PHOTON COUNTING; READOUT NOISE; REAL-TIME MODE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SECURITY SURVEILLANCE; SENSOR DYNAMIC; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL; SMART PIXELS; VISIBLE SPECTRA;

ASTROPHYSICS; BIOLOGY; CAMERAS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; PIXELS; SENSORS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 77949292605     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.838958     Document Type: Conference Paper

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