τ-SPAD: A new red sensitive single photon counting module

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8033, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kell, Gerald ^a   Bülter, Andreas ^b   Wahl, Michael ^b   Erdmann, Rainer ^b  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

APD; Detector; Fluorescence; Red sensitive; Single molecule; Single photon avalanche diode; TCSPC

Indexed keywords

APD; RED-SENSITIVE; SINGLE MOLECULE; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; TCSPC;

AVALANCHE DIODES; COUNTING TUBES; DETECTORS; FLUORESCENCE; GEIGER COUNTERS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; TIMING JITTER;

PHOTONS;

EID: 79960528260     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.884754     Document Type: Conference Paper

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