Time-resolved diffuse optical spectroscopy up to 1700 nm by means of a time-gated InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche diode

Applied Spectroscopy

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 944-950

  Bargigia, Ilaria ^a   Tosi, Alberto ^a   Bahgat Shehata, Andrea ^a   Della Frera, Adriano ^a   Farina, Andrea ^b   Bassi, Andrea ^a   Taroni, Paola ^a,b   Dalla Mora, Alberto ^a   Zappa, Franco ^a   Cubeddu, Rinaldo ^a,b   Pifferia, Antonio ^a,b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b IFN CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

InGaAs InP; Photon migration; Single photon avalanche diode; SPAD; Supercontinuum; Time resolved spectroscopy; Turbid media

Indexed keywords

INGAAS/INP; PHOTON MIGRATION; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SPAD; SUPERCONTINUUM; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; TURBID MEDIA;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT SOURCES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TURBIDITY;

PORTALS;

ALLOY; CARBON; GALLIUM; INDIUM; INDIUM PHOSPHIDE; INK; ORGANOARSENIC DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHINE DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHOLIPID; SOYBEAN OIL; SOYBEAN OIL, PHOSPHOLIPID EMULSION;

ABSORPTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMULSION; FAT INTAKE; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED RADIATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTON; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEMICONDUCTOR; SOLID STATE LASER; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SWINE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ABSORPTION; ALLOYS; ANIMALS; ARSENICALS; CALIBRATION; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIETARY FATS; EMULSIONS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; GALLIUM; INDIUM; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PHOSPHINES; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEMICONDUCTORS; SOLUTIONS; SOYBEAN OIL; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; SWINE; TIME;

EID: 84864747919     PISSN: 00037028     EISSN: 19433530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1366/11-06461     Document Type: Article

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