Photon-timing jitter dependence on the injection position in single-photon avalanche diodes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7681, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Assanelli, Mattia ^a   Ingargiola, Antonino ^a   Rech, Ivan ^a   Gulinatti, Angelo ^a   Ghioni, Massimo ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Photon timing; Photon Timing Figure Of Merit(PTFOM); Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; AVALANCHE CURRENTS; AVALANCHE INJECTION; DARK COUNTS; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DEVICE ENGINEERING; ENGINEERED DEVICES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FIGURE OF MERIT; PHOTON TIMING; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SPECIFIC RESISTANCES; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

DIODES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING JITTER;

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 77953735865     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.849681     Document Type: Conference Paper

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