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ArticleProceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering2017

Development and characterization of an 8×8 SPAD-array module for gigacount per second applications.

Francesco Ceccarelli, Angelo Gulinatti, Ivan Labanca, Ivan Rech, Massimo Ghioni

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Article in Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Francesco CeccarelliPolitecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - 20133 Milano, Italy.
Angelo GulinattiPolitecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - 20133 Milano, Italy.
Ivan LabancaPolitecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - 20133 Milano, Italy.
Ivan RechPolitecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - 20133 Milano, Italy.
Massimo GhioniPolitecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32 - 20133 Milano, Italy.

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Single-photon counting APD arrays for high-through-put single-molecule assaysR01GM095904 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI GHIONI, MASSIMO ANTONIO, MICHALET, XAVIER · 2012 to 2016
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095904
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Abstract

In recent years the development of Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) had a big impact on single-photon counting applications requiring high-performance detectors in terms of Dark Count Rate (DCR), Photon Detection Efficiency (PDE), afterpulsing probability, etc. Among these, it is possible to find applications in single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy that suffer from long-time measurements. In these cases SPAD arrays can be a solution in order to shorten the measurement time, thanks to the high grade of parallelism they can provide. Moreover, applications in other fields (e.g. astronomy) demand for large-area single-photon detectors, able also to handle very high count rates. For these reasons we developed a new single-photon detection module, featuring an 8 × 8 SPAD array. Thanks to a dedicated silicon technology, the performance of the detector have been finely optimized, reaching a 49% detection efficiency at 550 nm, as well as low dark counts (2 kcount/s maximum all over the array). This module can be used in two different modes: the first is a multi-spot configuration, allowing the acquisition of 64 optical signals at the same time and considerably reducing the time needed for a measurement. The second operation mode instead exploits all the pixels in a combined mode, allowing the detection of a 64-times higher maximum photon rate (up to 2 Gcount/s). In addition, this configuration provides also an extended dynamic range and allows to attain photon number resolving capabilities. Dark counts, detection efficiency, linearity, afterpulsing and crosstalk probability have been characterized at different operating conditions.

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Array detectorsgigacount ratephoton countingphoton number resolvingSingle-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs)

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PMID28781415
PMCPMC5542058

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