APDs as single-photon detectors for visible and near-infrared wavelengths down to Hz rates
Autor: | R. Jöhren, Wilfried Nörtershäuser, J. Mader, Volker Hannen, D. Hampf, Rodolfo Sánchez, R. Berendes, Ch. Weinheimer, W. Buglak |
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Rok vydání: | 2012 |
Předmět: |
Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Materials science APDS business.industry Preamplifier Detector FOS: Physical sciences Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) Grating law.invention Wavelength Optics law Breakdown voltage Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex) business Nuclear Experiment Instrumentation Spectrograph Mathematical Physics Diode |
Zdroj: | Journal of Instrumentation. 7:P02015-P02015 |
ISSN: | 1748-0221 |
Popis: | For the SPECTRAP experiment at GSI, Germany, detectors with Single-Photon counting capability in the visible and near-infrared regime are required. For the wavelength region up to 1100 nm we investigate the performance of 2x2 mm^2 avalanche photo diodes (APDs) of type S0223 manufactured by Radiation Monitoring Devices. To minimize thermal noise, the APDs are cooled to approximately -170 deg. C using liquid nitrogen. By operating the diodes close to the breakdown voltage it is possible to achieve relative gains in excess of 2x10^4. Custom-made low noise preamplifiers are used to read out the devices. The measurements presented in this paper have been obtained at a relative gain of 2.2x10^4. At a discriminator threshold of 6 mV the resulting dark count rate is in the region of 230/s. With these settings the studied APDs are able to detect single photons at 628 nm wavelength with a photo detection efficiency of (67+-7)%. Measurements at 1020 nm wavelength have been performed using the attenuated output of a grating spectrograph with a light bulb as photon source. With this setup the photo detection efficiency at 1020 nm has been determined to be (13+-3)%, again at a threshold of 6 mV. Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Journal of Instrumentation |
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