Avalanche discrimination and high-speed counting in periodically gated single-photon avalanche diodes

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8375, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Restelli, Alessandro ^a   Bienfang, Joshua C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

afterpulsing; avalanche photodiodes; self differencing; Single photon detection

Indexed keywords

AFTERPULSING; COUNT RATES; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; SELF-DIFFERENCING; SINGLE PHOTON AVALANCHE DIODE; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

DETECTORS;

EID: 84867051002     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.919803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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