Development of High-Speed Photon Counting Module Based on Passive Quenching Mode Multi-pixel Photon Counter

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Instruments and Experimental Techniques Pub Date : 2025-03-07 DOI:10.1134/S002044122470194X

Yue Wang, Guoqing Zhang, Yun Wu, Lei Wang, Lu Liu, Lina Liu, Lianbi Li, Xiaoxiang Han, Yanfei Yang, Zebin Li

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The newly developed multi-pixel photon counter (MPPC), which is essentially single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPAD) array, has a significant application prospect in the field of laser detection because of its unique room-temperature photon number resolution capability. The working modes of SPAD are usually divided into active quenching (AQ) mode and passive quenching (PQ) mode. It is generally believed that the PQ mode has a long recovery time and a low photon counting rate (PCR), making it unsuitable for high-speed photon counting situations. This paper demonstrated a photon counting module based on a specially designed passive quenching MPPC. The small-area SPAD cells and the bulk resistance quenching mode greatly reduce the recovery time of the SPAD cells, enabling the PCR even surpassing that of the photon counting modules in AQ mode. The PCR of the developed MPPC module can reach more than 80 Mcps just in the PQ mode, which has obvious advantages in PCR and has a good application prospect especially in space target detection.

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基于被动猝灭模式多像素光子计数器的高速光子计数模块的研制

新开发的多像素光子计数器（MPPC）本质上是单光子雪崩光电二极管（SPAD）阵列，由于其独特的室温光子数分辨能力，在激光探测领域具有重要的应用前景。SPAD的工作模式通常分为主动淬火（AQ）模式和被动淬火（PQ）模式。一般认为，PQ模式恢复时间长，光子计数率（PCR）低，不适合高速光子计数的场合。介绍了一种基于特殊设计的被动淬灭MPPC的光子计数模块。小面积SPAD细胞和体阻猝灭模式大大缩短了SPAD细胞的恢复时间，使PCR甚至超过了AQ模式下的光子计数模块。所开发的MPPC模块仅在PQ模式下的PCR就可以达到80 Mcps以上，具有明显的PCR优势，尤其在空间目标检测方面具有良好的应用前景。

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Instruments and Experimental Techniques 工程技术-工程：综合

CiteScore

1.20

自引率

33.30%

发文量

113

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Instruments and Experimental Techniques is an international peer reviewed journal that publishes reviews describing advanced methods for physical measurements and techniques and original articles that present techniques for physical measurements, principles of operation, design, methods of application, and analysis of the operation of physical instruments used in all fields of experimental physics and when conducting measurements using physical methods and instruments in astronomy, natural sciences, chemistry, biology, medicine, and ecology.