Characterization of three high efficiency and blue sensitive silicon photomultipliers

Silicon Photomultipliers: Characterization and Applications

Absolute Photo Detection Efficiency measurement of Silicon PhotoMultipliers

Silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) are recent detectors studied by many groups. Their proprieties (compact form, insensitivity to magnetic fields, low voltage power supplies...) are promising for various scientific fields, from high energy physics calorimetry to medical imaging application. An accurate measurement of the SiPM parameters is needed to integrate these devices in experimentation. Abso...

A measurement of the photon detection efficiency of silicon photomultipliers

We describe a new method to determine the photon detection efficiency of silicon photomultipliers. This method can also be applied to other photon detectors with single photoelectron resolution. r 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. PACS: 95.55.Ka; 95.55.Vj; 29.40. n; 29.30. h

Photon Detection with Silicon Photomultipliers

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 ca...

Modeling crosstalk in silicon photomultipliers

Optical crosstalk seriously limits the photon-counting resolution of silicon photomultipliers. In this work, realistic analytical models to describe the crosstalk effects on the response of these photodetectors are presented and compared with experimental data. The proposed models are based on the hypothesis that each pixel of the array has a finite number of available neighboring pixels to exc...