Visible light photon counters as high quantum efficiency photodetectors and applications

Muzaffer Atac

doi:10.1117/12.185818

7 September 1994 Visible light photon counters as high quantum efficiency photodetectors and applications

Muzaffer Atac

Proceedings Volume 2281, Scintillating Fiber Technology and Applications II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185818
Event: SPIE's 1994 International Symposium on Optics, Imaging, and Instrumentation, 1994, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The visible light photon counters (VLPCs) have been developed as a result of the joint work between the UCLA and the Rockwell International Science Center since 1988. The VLPCs with quantum efficiencies approaching 80% and having avalanche gains of 30000, rate capabilities of 50 millions per second per millimeter square with a time resolution better than one nanosecond have been applied to high energy particle physics research, medical imaging and particle astrophysics. A survey of VLPC development with some results and applications is presented.

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Muzaffer Atac "Visible light photon counters as high quantum efficiency photodetectors and applications", Proc. SPIE 2281, Scintillating Fiber Technology and Applications II, (7 September 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.185818

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