Photon Detection with Silicon Photomultipliers
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The Silicon Photomultiplier (SPM) addresses the challenge of detecting, timing and quantifying low-light signals down to the single-photon level. Traditionally the province of the Photomultiplier Tube (PMT), Avalanche Photodiode (APD), or PIN photodiode with high-gain amplifier, the Silicon Photomultiplier now offers a highly attractive alternative that closely mimics the low light detection capabilities of the PMT while offering all the benefits of a solid-state device. The SPM offers low voltage operation, insensitivity to magnetic fields, mechanical robustness and excellent uniformity of response. Due to these traits, the SPM has rapidly gained a proven performance in the fields of medical imaging, hazard and threat detection, biophotonics, high energy physics and LiDAR.
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