Efficiency of solid state photomultipliers in photon number resolution

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 58, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 9-16

  Vinogradov, Sergey ^a   Vinogradova, Tatiana ^b   Shubin, Vitaly ^a   Shushakov, Dmitry ^a   Sitarsky, Constantin ^a  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b Amplification Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Detective quantum efficiency; excess noise factor; probability distribution; solid state photomultipliers

Indexed keywords

AFTERPULSING; DARK COUNT RATE; DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; EXCESS NOISE FACTOR; FAST TIMING; HIGH GAIN; INTERNAL AMPLIFICATION; LOW DYNAMIC RANGE; PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLUTION;

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICLE DETECTORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79951675737     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2010.2096474     Document Type: Article

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