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

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-159

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

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Photon timing; single photon avalanche diode

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE AREA; AVALANCHE CURRENTS; AVALANCHE INJECTION; DARK COUNT RATE; DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS; DEVICE ENGINEERING; ENGINEERED DEVICES; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SPECIFIC RESISTANCES; TIMING PERFORMANCE; TIMING RESOLUTIONS;

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

AVALANCHE DIODES;

EID: 78651310309     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2010.2068038     Document Type: Article

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