Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Quasi continuous photon detection system
- Patent Title (中): 准连续光子检测系统
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Application No.: US12906624Application Date: 2010-10-18
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Publication No.: US08841596B2Publication Date: 2014-09-23
- Inventor: Oliver Edward Thomas , Andrew James Shields , Zhiliang Yuan
- Applicant: Oliver Edward Thomas , Andrew James Shields , Zhiliang Yuan
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: GB0919588.4 20091109
- Main IPC: H01J40/14
- IPC: H01J40/14 ; G01J1/44

Abstract:
A photon detection system comprising an avalanche photodiode and a voltage source for said avalanche photodiode, wherein said avalanche photodiode comprises Silicon or its heterostructures and wherein said voltage source is configured to bias said avalanche photodiode with a voltage component which is static with respect to time and a voltage component which varies with time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110108712A1 PHOTON DETECTOR Public/Granted day:2011-05-12
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