Capacitive quenching measurement circuit for geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 919-925

  Dimler, S J ^a   Ng, J S ^a   Tozer, R C ^a   Rees, G J ^a   David, J P R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avalanche photodiode (APD); dark count; Geiger; impact ionization; mode; quenching; single photon detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008010118     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: 15584542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.903595     Document Type: Article

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