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Photon detectors

Ultra-fast photon counting with a passive quenching silicon photomultiplier in the charge integration regime

Guoqing Zhang^a, Liu Lina<sup>b

a</sup> School of Science, Xi'an Polytechnic University, China
^b School of Science, Xi'an University of Technology, China

Abstract: An ultra-fast photon counting method is proposed based on the charge integration of output electrical pulses of passive quenching silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). The results of the numerical analysis with actual parameters of SiPMs show that the maximum photon counting rate of a state-of-art passive quenching SiPM can reach ~THz levels which is much larger than that of the existing photon counting devices. The experimental procedure is proposed based on this method. This photon counting regime of SiPMs is promising in many fields such as large dynamic light power detection.

Keywords: silicon photomultiplier, photon counting, charge integration, optical power meter.

Received: 01.07.2017
Revised: 29.09.2017

 English version: Quantum Electronics, 2018, 48:2, 173–177

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