Single-Photon Counting Detectors
Various new developments for array detectors based on Silicon Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) were reported. Improved Si-SPAD technologies brought higher detection efficiency in the red wavelength range. Higher performance was attained with InGaAs/
Sergio D. Cova, Massimo Ghioni
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Self-powered perovskite photon-counting detectors. [PDF]
Metal-halide perovskites (MHPs) have been successfully exploited for converting photons to charges or vice versa in applications of solar cells, light-emitting diodes and solar fuels1–3, for which all these applications involve strong light. Here we show
Zhou Y +5 more
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Photon-Counting Computed Tomography (PCCT): Technical Background and Cardio-Vascular Applications
Photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) is a new advanced imaging technique that is going to transform the standard clinical use of computed tomography (CT) imaging. Photon-counting detectors resolve the number of photons and the incident X-ray energy
Antonella Meloni +8 more
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Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: physics and applications [PDF]
Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SSPDs or SNSPDs) have rapidly emerged as a highly promising photon-counting technology for infrared wavelengths.
Hadfield, Robert H +5 more
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Single photon source characterization with a superconducting single photon detector [PDF]
Superconducting single photon detectors (SSPD) based on nanopatterned niobium nitride wires offer single photon counting at fast rates, low jitter, and low dark counts, from visible wavelengths well into the infrared.
Mirin, R.P. +6 more
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Biomedical x-ray imaging with a GaAs photon-counting detector: A comparative study
Photon-counting detectors provide several potential advantages in biomedical x-ray imaging including fast and readout noise free data acquisition, sharp pixel response, and high dynamic range.
J. Scholz +8 more
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Ge-on-Si single-photon avalanche diode detectors: design, modeling, fabrication, and characterization at wavelengths 1310 and 1550 nm [PDF]
The design, modeling, fabrication, and characterization of single-photon avalanche diode detectors with an epitaxial Ge absorption region grown directly on Si are presented.
Lever, LJM +48 more
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Quantum detector tomography of a time-multiplexed superconducting nanowire single-photon detector at telecom wavelengths [PDF]
Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are widely used in telecom wavelength optical quantum information science applications. Quantum detector tomography allows the positive-operator-valued measure (POVM) of a single-photon detector ...
Dorenbos, SN +33 more
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Ultra-Fast Single-Photon Counting with Waveguide-Integrated Detectors for Quantum Technologies
With recent advances in quantum technologies for applications such as communication, cryptography, computing, metrology and sensing, the performance and scalability of single-photon detection as a vital key component is becoming increasingly important ...
Perlot, Nicolas +15 more
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Removing Ring Artefacts for Photon-Counting Detectors Using Neural Networks in Different Domains
The development of energy-resolving photon-counting detectors provides a new approach for obtaining spectral information in computed tomography. However, the responses of different photon counting detector pixels can be inconsistent, which will always ...
Wei Fang, Liang Li, Zhiqiang Chen
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