Invention Application
- Patent Title: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MIMIMIZING SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIER SIGNAL PROPAGATION DELAY DISPERSION AND IMPROVE TIMING
- Patent Title (中): 用于减少硅光电子信号传播延迟分散和改进时序的系统和方法
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Application No.: US14609193Application Date: 2015-01-29
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Publication No.: US20160191829A1Publication Date: 2016-06-30
- Inventor: Jianjun Guo , Sergei Ivanovich Dolinsky
- Applicant: General Electric Company
- Main IPC: H04N5/378
- IPC: H04N5/378 ; H04N5/374 ; H04N5/376

Abstract:
A silicon photomultiplier array including a plurality of microcells arranged in subgroupings, each microcell of a respective subgrouping providing a pulse output in response to an incident radiation. Each microcell output interconnected by respective traces of equal length to either a summing node or an integrated buffer amplifier. Each respective summing node configured to sum the pulse outputs of a first subgroup of the microcell subgroupings, and each respective integrated buffer amplifier configured to sum the pulse outputs of each microcell of a second subgrouping, the respective integrated buffer amplifier located on the silicon photomultiplier array within the second subgroup of microcells. The plurality of microcells arranged in one of columns and rows, and a first group of the arranged plurality of microcells being a mirror image of a second group of the arranged plurality of microcells about a midpoint between one of the columns and rows.
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