Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Photodetector device
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Application No.: US16963303Application Date: 2019-01-24
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Publication No.: US11774283B2Publication Date: 2023-10-03
- Inventor: Takashi Baba , Tatsuya Hashi , Yoshihito Suzuki , Kenji Makino , Shigeyuki Nakamura
- Applicant: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu
- Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee: HAMAMATSU PHOTONICS K.K.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu
- Agency: Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Priority: JP 18011826 2018.01.26
- International Application: PCT/JP2019/002350 2019.01.24
- International Announcement: WO2019/146723A 2019.08.01
- Date entered country: 2020-07-20
- Main IPC: G01J1/44
- IPC: G01J1/44 ; G01S7/4863 ; G01S7/4865 ; G01S17/894

Abstract:
A photodetector device includes an avalanche photodiode array substrate. A circuit substrate includes time measurement circuits and a clock driver. Each of the time measurement circuit includes a delay line unit, and is arranged to acquire, from an operation result of a delay line, time information indicating timing at which a pulse signal is input from a corresponding avalanche photodiode. The delay line unit is arranged to initiate an operation of the delay line in response to input of the pulse signal to the time measurement circuit, and to stop the operation of the delay line in response to input of a clock signal from a clock driver to the time measurement circuit, and is arranged to detect a time interval shorter than a cycle of the clock signal by the operation of the delay line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210372852A1 PHOTODETECTOR DEVICE Public/Granted day:2021-12-02
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