B. Aull, J. Burns, Chenson Chen, B. Felton, Helen Hanson, C. Keast, J. Knecht, A. Loomis, M. Renzi, A. Soares, V. Suntharalingam, K. Warner, Deanna Wolfson, D. Yost, D. Young
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Abstract
A 64times64 laser-radar (ladar) detector array with 50mum pixel size measures the arrival times of single photons using Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (APD). A 3-tier structure with active devices on each tier is used with 227 transistors, six 3D vias and an APD in each pixel. A 9b pseudorandom counter in the pixel measures time. Initial imagery shows 2ns time quantization