Avalanche photodiodes and quenching circuits for single-photon detection.
- S. Cova, M. Ghioni, A. Lacaita, C. Samori, F. Zappa
- PhysicsApplied Optics
- 20 April 1996
Avalanche photodiodes, which operate above the breakdown voltage in Geiger mode connected with avalanche-quenching circuits, can be used to detect single photons and are therefore called singlephoton…
Evolution and prospects for single-photon avalanche diodes and quenching circuits
Abstract The evolution of solid-state avalanche detectors of single optical photons is outlined and the issues for further progress are discussed. Physical phenomena that underlay the operation of…
Progress in Silicon Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes
- M. Ghioni, A. Gulinatti, I. Rech, F. Zappa, S. Cova
- PhysicsIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum…
- 24 September 2007
Silicon single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are nowadays a solid-state alternative to photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) in single-photon counting (SPC) and time-correlated single-photon counting…
DarkSide-20k: A 20 tonne two-phase LAr TPC for direct dark matter detection at LNGS
- C. Aalseth, F. Acerbi, G. Zuzel
- Physics
- 25 July 2017
Abstract.Building on the successful experience in operating the DarkSide-50 detector, the DarkSide Collaboration is going to construct DarkSide-20k, a direct WIMP search detector using a two-phase…
CMOS Imager With 1024 SPADs and TDCs for Single-Photon Timing and 3-D Time-of-Flight
- F. Villa, R. Lussana, W. Brockherde
- PhysicsIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum…
- 23 July 2014
We present a CMOS imager consisting of 32×32 smart pixels, each one able to detect single photons in the 300-900 nm wavelength range and to perform both photon-counting and photon-timing operations…
SPICE modeling of single photon avalanche diodes
- F. Zappa, A. Tosi, A. D. Mora, S. Tisa
- Physics
- 3 August 2009
A High-Linearity, 17 ps Precision Time-to-Digital Converter Based on a Single-Stage Vernier Delay Loop Fine Interpolation
- B. Markovic, S. Tisa, F. Villa, A. Tosi, F. Zappa
- Engineering, Computer ScienceIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part 1…
- 11 January 2013
A time-to-digital converter architecture capable of reaching high-precision and high-linearity with moderate area occupation per measurement channel with a couple of two-stage interpolators that exploit the cyclic sliding scale technique in order to improve the conversion linearity.
On the bremsstrahlung origin of hot-carrier-induced photons in silicon devices
- A. Lacaita, F. Zappa, S. Bigliardi, M. Manfredi
- Physics
- 1 March 1993
Spectrally resolved absolute measurements of hot-carrier-induced photon emission in silicon are reported. In order to avoid uncertainties in geometrical and physical parameters, the simplest…
Photon-efficient imaging with a single-photon camera
- Dongeek Shin, Feihu Xu, J. Shapiro
- PhysicsNature Communications
- 1 June 2016
An array-specific algorithm is developed that converts coarsely time-binned photon detections to highly accurate scene depth and reflectivity by exploiting both the transverse smoothness and longitudinal sparsity of natural scenes and uniquely achieves high photon efficiency in a relatively short acquisition time.
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