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

IF 0.4 4区工程技术 Q4 ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

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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Abstract

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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Instruments and Experimental Techniques 工程技术-工程：综合

CiteScore

1.20

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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.