Measurement and modeling of microlenses fabricated on single-photon avalanche diode arrays for fill factor recovery

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 4202-4213

  Pavia, Juan Mata ^a,b   Wolf, Martin ^a   Charbon, Edoardo ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84894844723     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.004202     Document Type: Article

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