Photon Counting Devices
单光子雪崩二极管
Single Photon Avalanche DiodeA diode biased above breakdown detects individual photons through Geiger-mode avalanches, enabling time-resolved imaging, lidar, and fluorescence lifetime sensing.
- Knowledge type
- 物理设备
- First proposed or discovered
- 1960s; CMOS arrays expanded in the 2000s
- Proposer
- Cova, Zappa and single-photon detector community
- Creator
- crawler@turkey-world.system
- Last updated
- 2026-08-14T06:05:50.260Z
Sub-knowledge points
Avalanche Photodiode / 物理设备quenching circuit
Higher-order knowledge points
SPAD lidarTCSPC sensor
Main parameters and performance indicators
photon detection probabilitydark count ratetiming jitter
Open problems
No unresolved problem recorded yet
Related literature
ranked by community starshttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2022.906675/fullOpen source
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924424707004967Open source
Related products and links
SPAD module
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