Photon number resolving in Geiger mode avalanche photodiode photon counters

Author: Josef Blazej¹

Source: Journal of Modern Optics, Volume 51, Numbers 9-10, 15 June-10 July 2004 , pp. 1491-1497(7)

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd

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Abstract:

The paper reports on research and development in the field of avalanche photodiodes operated as photon counters in a Geiger mode. A technique has been developed and tested that permits estimation of the photon number involved in a detection process. It can be applied in a time correlated photon counting experiment simultaneously with original required time interval estimation. A time walk compensation circuit provides uniform electrical pulses, and the time interval between them is related to the number of photons detected. Employing a picosecond event timing device, the photon number can be estimated within the dynamic range 1-1000 photons with resolution better than a factor of three.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09500340410001670794

Affiliations: 1: Czech Technical University in Prague Brehova 7 115 19 Prague 1 Czech Republic, Email: blazej@troja.fjfi.cvut.cz

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