Fast-gated single-photon counting technique widens dynamic range and speeds up acquisition time in time-resolved measurements

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 10735-10746

  Tosi, Alberto ^a   Mora, Alberto Dalla ^a   Zappa, Franco ^a,b   Gulinatti, Angelo ^a   Contini, Davide ^a   Pifferi, Antonio ^a,c   Spinelli, Lorenzo ^c   Torricelli, Alessandro ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a,c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b Micro Photon Devices Srl   (Italy)

^c IFN CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

ACQUISITION TIME; DYNAMIC RANGE; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL INVESTIGATION; OPTICAL SIGNALS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE-PHOTON COUNTING; STRONG SIGNAL; TIME DOMAIN; TIME INTERVAL; TIME RESOLVED MEASUREMENT; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

GLASS FIBER; SILICON;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME;

ARTIFACTS; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; SILICON; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 79957603319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.010735     Document Type: Article

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