Linear mode photon counting with the noiseless gain HgCdTe e-APD

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8033, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Beck, Jeffrey D ^a   Scritchfield, Richard ^a   Mitra, Pradip ^a   Sullivan III, William ^a   Gleckler, Anthony D ^b   Strittmatter, Robert ^b   Martin, Robert J ^c  

^a DRS RSTA Inc   (United States)

^b GEOST ^*  (United States)

^c Analog/Digital Integrated Circuits Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

APD; Avalanche photodiode; Excess noise factor; False event rate; HgCdTe; MWIR; Photon detection efficiency; Single photon counting

Indexed keywords

APD; EXCESS NOISE FACTOR; FALSE EVENT RATE; HGCDTE; MWIR; PHOTON DETECTION EFFICIENCY; SINGLE PHOTON COUNTING;

BANDWIDTH; DESIGN; JITTER; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79960518619     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.886161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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