Scintillation induced response in passively-quenched Si-based single photon counting avalanche diode arrays.

An optical electrical model which studies the response of Si-based single photon counting arrays, specifically silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), to scintillation light has been developed and validated with analytically derived and experimental data. The scintillator-photodetector response in terms of relative pulse height, 10%-90% rise/decay times to light stimuli of different rise times (ranging from 0.1 to 5 ns) and decay times (ranging from 1 to 50 ns), as well as for different decay times of the photodetector are compared in theory and simulation. A measured detector response is used as a reference to further validate the model and the results show a mean deviation of simulated over measured values of 1%.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Optics Express

• Publication date

  2011-01-17

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1364/OE.19.001665PMID 21263706
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