SensL is a technology leader specialising in Silicon Photomultipliers, Single Photon
Avalanche Diode and LiDAR sensing products for automotive, medical, industrial and consumer markets.
SensL, based in Ireland, is a technology leader specializing in Silicon Photomultipliers, or SiPM, Single Photon
Avalanche Diode, or SPAD, and LiDAR sensing products for automotive, medical, industrial and consumer markets.
The researchers used a single photon
avalanche diode, or SPAD, to amplify the signal from each photon that struck the detector.
Another very successful single-photon detector is the single-photon
avalanche diode (SPAD).
The microplasma diode in Table I refers to GaAs
avalanche diode, biased below the breakdown voltage and periodically driven by external microwave voltage at 1 GHz [10].
Zhan, "The investigation of W-band microstrip integrated high order frequency multiplier based on the nonlinear model of
avalanche diode," Progress In Electromagnetics Research, Vol.
TABLE I TYPE OF PULSE SOURCES AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS (5) Best Available Risetime at Type Step/Pulse Amplitude Notes Mercury switch step 70 ps 300 V max PRF = 200 Hz Avalanche transistor pulse 150 ps 12 V device selection necessary Tunnel diode step 25 ps 0.25 V fastest transition time 100 ps 1.0 V 60 ps 20 V commercially available Step recovery step 100 ps 50 V specially ordered 200 ps 200 V four-stack
Avalanche diode impulse 400 ps 125 V MHz rep.
Currently, a much cheaper and simpler laser setup consisting of a short pulse diode laser and an
avalanche diode detector is under development at the University of Ottawa.